Welcome to The Patcham Gardening Network!
Do you enjoy gardening?
Would you like to join a group to share knowledge, skills, plants and much more?
The Patcham Gardening Network is a group of local gardening enthusiasts who meet once a month to share and enhance our gardening knowledge. We invite experts to give talks and workshops, organise trips to gardens, and open up our own gardens for members to visit. We are building a community for local gardeners of all abilities to indulge their passion further.
Membership is open to all at £24 per year. Please Join Us!
Details of all our meetings can be found on our Events page.
March 2025 PGN Presents.....
There is a change to our advertised event on Wednesday 26th March: We are very pleased to welcome Michael Kennard, founder of Compost Club, a social enterprise with a focus on soil regeneration, reducing food waste emissions, and education. Michael will be talking about soil science and effective composting methods. Please join us from 7pm at the Community Centre.
It will also be time to renew your PGN membership - a steal at £24 for the next twelve months!
Thanks to everyone who came to Juliet Sargeant's talk in February.
In Bottom’s Up! Your Garden’s Success Starts with the Soil Juliet gave us an update of recent discoveries in soil science and an overview of where we are in our understanding of how to look after the soil in our gardens. We all came away with some great practical tips on how to manage our chalky soils and suggestions for successful planting schemes on challenging sites.
Juliet's new book Start With Soil is published on May 1st 2025 and can be pre-ordered now.
PGN Open Gardens
Thanks so much to Sally and Sara who opened their gardens to PGN members in the summer. Sally chose the wildest weather day in June and still raised over £300 for Cancer Research.
Sara chose a balmy July afternoon and raised nearly £240 for the Downs View College Community Garden.
Thanks to everyone who came to support both open gardens. We'll have more next year!
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