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Highfields Garden Project - What the gardeners think!

George Deans - September 2011
george.deans@kirklees.gov.uk

We asked people who work at Highfields to tell us what they think about the garden project:

"It's 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"

We also asked people what they had learned while working at the gardens:

Planiting

"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.

People also particularly enjoyed:

Highfields gardens planting

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.

Contact details

George Deans, Community Enabler
Well-being and Integration
Highfields
Cemetery Road
Huddersfield
HD1 5NF

Tel: 0780 174 1874
Email: george.deans@kirklees.gov.uk

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