For the first time this year, we are dedicating training sessions to our volunteers, and where better to start than at the beginning of the growing process – sowing seeds?

In the last week of March 2026, two cohorts of enthusiastic volunteers received expert tuition from our Trustee Sharon Ross in the mysteries of seed sowing, concentrating on purple podded peas, sweet peas, basil, sunflowers and cosmos. They were also shown our new compost bins, and Chair of Trustees Steve Dent talked the attendees through how they would work, what could be composted, etc.

Further sessions will take place every month, in parallel with the development of the seedlings, so that volunteers are able to practise all the necessary techniques, from pricking out to potting on and eventually planting the young plants out into the garden, both under cover and in the open.

The sessions were very well received, and we look forward to seeing the fruits of the attendees’ labour later in the season!