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Didcot town centre planters
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Getting ready to start Incredible Edible Didcot's first planting project, outside Cornerstones.
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Herbs donated by Sainsbury's.
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The soil preparation phase is hard work. The existing soil is rock hard, but we brought peat-free compost to make it nicer.
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Tibor, a professional gardener from Hungary, planted the first finished bed with lavender, thyme, bay and strawberries.
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An aerial view of the new planting in the first tier.
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Fixing the all-important (and lovely!) signs in place.
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The shadier end of tier 1 now has chives, garlic chives, and various mints - inc. Apple mint and chocolate mint. Plants were donated.
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Didcot town centre planters
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Didcot town centre planters
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Didcot town centre planters
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Hoping that clumps of chives and rampaging mints will happily coexist in the shady bed :)
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Lemon balm, parsley and marjoram have taken over the right side of tier 1
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The middle of tier 1 now has lavender, thyme, bay and strawberries.
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The end of tier 2 has been given to the sage. Hope it grows big!
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In tier 2 we left some existing Rosemary and added a strawberry and two thymes.
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This one took some work - the shrubs were entrenched! But it's now English mace, bay and a little rosemary and lavender.
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The final touch :)
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This one we haven't tackled yet! But the bees love the lavender and rosemary.
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The bay tree at the end of tier 1 has some parsley pals.
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Currants planted
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Sustainable Didcot planting fruit trees and raspberries
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Chives still going strong
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Strawberries in with the herbs
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Incredible Edible Didcot: fruit garden
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Incredible Edible Didcot sign
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Mark from GoGreen Taxis watering
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Dwarf fruit trees and strawberries