Green Cotham

• Meet other like minded people

• Work as part of a team, in pairs or on your own

• Learn gardening skills 

• Learn how to garden for wildlife

• Learn about plants from all around the world

• Enjoy discovering wildlife and nature with other people

• Mulch making 

• Mulching plants

• Sweeping leaves

• Making compost and leaf mould

• Building bug habitats

• Creating habitat for wildlife

• Building bee habitats

• Learning about wildflowers and meadows 

• Weeding - to protect space of other plants or resist dominant species

• Watering and water saving

• Planting a variety of plants from seeds, bulbs, wildflowers, perennial plants, shrubs and trees. potting on baby plants

• Improving health of poorly or unhappy plants

• Pruning cutting back a wide variety of shrubs

• Deadheading 

• Managing size of plants/ keeping balance and light in garden

• Tidying and cutting back plants in flowerbeds

• Maintaining wildflower meadows

• Planting fruit trees

• Taking care of fruit trees

• Pruning fruit trees

• Transplanting and moving plants

• Dividing plants

• Improving soil health

• Building and maintaining ponds and water features

• Learning about plant health

• Clothes you don’t mind getting a bit muddy.

• The ideal clothes for gardening in hot weather are a minimum amount of heavy clothes balancing the need for sun protection. 

• The ideal clothes for gardening in cold weather are thin layers. Quite a few gardening activities get you feeling hot and it helps to be able to add and take away layers.

• If the weather could be wet and rainy, we will still garden in light / medium / showery rain and so bring a raincoat and rain trousers if you’ve got them. 

• Water bottle, sun hat and sunscreen if weather is warm. If the weather is likely to go over 30°, we will retire the session into the Church. 

Our Wednesday gardening drop in runs 2 - 4:30pm every Wednesday - just turn up, the turning up is the most important bit, if you can drop us an email to let us know you’re coming that helps, but it’s not essential. We can cater for up to 15 volunteers, it would be rare that we would have to turn you away.

We offer bespoke Group gardening sessions most days of the week including weekends for groups of up to 15 people. If you are a local business or charity, University Department, social group, group of any kind and would like to spend a couple of hours supporting our project please get in touch. 

Most of our volunteering work requires some level of mobility, please get in touch if you would like to talk through your needs. Half of our sessions are at the Church and we can provide sitting activities on these days. We would like to be inclusive, do get in touch to discuss access and how we may be able to help.