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What the Gardeners think!

Liz Challenger - Community Support Officer - August 2008
Briarcourt.gardens@kirklees.gov.uk

We asked people who work at Briarcourt to tell us what they think about the garden project:
  • "Its hard work but alright"
  • "I like the job and would like extra days, I give it a big thumbs up"
  • "I don't like it when its cold, its ok the rest of the time"
  • "I get to talk to friends"
 Gardeners at work clearing an old path
("No its not the chain gang, its a group at the gardens clearing an old pathway!" Febuary 2002)

We also asked people what they had learned while working at the gardens:
  • "I didn't know how to riddle when I first came, now I have a better idea"

  • "How to make a path when I worked with the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers"

  • "How to work with plants, weeding, watering, digging, putting canes in for the sweet peas and using a mallet"

  • "Cleaning the paths with a hosepipe"

  • "Sweeping up"
  • "Marking out lines for the edge of paths being made"
  • "Washing the poly-tunnel down"
  • "Using and emptying the wheelbarrow"
  • "Skimming paths out"
  • "How to use the different gardens tools - garden fork, spade, shovel, watering can"
Most people had also learned how to sow seeds and transplant seedlings, plant plants into pots and containers as well as hanging baskets.

They also learned about mixing compost and filling pots with compost.

Everyone said they enjoyed making and spending time with new friends.

A worker cleaning a greenhouse at the gardens   
People also particularly enjoyed:
  • emptying the flooded greenhouse
  • the trip to Harrogate gardens
  • seeing foxes and squirrels
  • picking up conkers
People said that they like coming and they look at a job. They enjoy keeping busy, making cups of tea or coffee, and working with different people at the gardens.
("Yup those polytunnels need a clean again." Febuary 2002)
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