There are a number of keen gardeners in the Province who enjoy cultivating vegetables and fruit and enjoy working with the earth to create good things to eat.

Many thanks to Barbara, Sue and Marion for photos Please click on images to view slideshow

Barbara, together with help from Teresa has created a new garden in their new house at Wingrove Road, Newcastle, which includes a veggie patch. Marion used to have an allotment in Leeds: on moving house two years ago she gave that up as it was too far away, but is now lucky enough to have a smaller, easier to manage veggie patch, along the side of the new house. Sue has grown vegetables in the gardens of the two different houses she has lived in at Roehampton, and also masterminded the creation of small veggie plots for our elderly Sisters at Duchesne House.   Having now moved to Oxford she has re-instated the veggie plot there! Click here to view image in a larger size

The Duchesne veggie plot: Sue dreamt it, Marcin and team created it,  Sue planted it, April and Mimi pray for it, Kevin the roof man helps water it – Duchesne eat it!

The photos represent the labours of the above RSCJ, but there are others who are not captured by the camera! Dorothy beavers away in her tiny plot in Bute Gardens and wages war with the squirrels who enjoy her produce as much as she does (when she can wrest it from them)! Similarly, Steph, in our large property at Brecon, which should lend itself to cultivating many delights, has fought and conceded victory to the rabbits! However, she has succeeded in making cassis from abundant blackcurrant bushes, and turned home grown Elderflowers into cordial, as can be seen in this photo.

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