Kingston upon Thames Guerrillallotments
Co-ordinated by Transition Town Kingston and Greener Kingston, this will be a feast of fruits and vegetables and community gardens planted in unexpected places around the borough of Kingston: verges, front gardens, balconies, windowboxes, walls, town centre planters, odd corners of parks and car-parks, rooftops, roundabouts... We hope there will be plots and plants to visit and admire from April onwards - please keep revisiting this page to see what and where as plans come to fruition.
Co-ordinating our guerrilla gardens
We are building up a list of guerrrilla gardening projects in Kingston in an effort to publicise them and spread the concept, and also to co-ordinate them so that, for example, a vegetable grower doesn't adopt an empty-seeming plot where someone else has planted wild flowers. If you have a project that you'd like added to this list please send details with post-code, using the contact form below. See also Guerrillallotment guidance.
Key: V = visible from a public road or pathway; O = open to the public
Edible front gardens
Fruitful front garden: a raised bed given over to fruit bushes, with runner beans growing on the railings + a mini-meadow of bee-friendly wildflowers in a reclaimed (from the Thames) planter.
Lower Ham Road, KT2 5BD
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Kingston Environment Centre: the grassy area outside the Centre, beside the Fountain Roundabout in New Malden, was a feast of takeway edibles in summer and autumn 2016.
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Guerrilla vegetable growing
Community gardens
Transition Tolworth community garden, on a cleared bit of waste ground at the southern end of Broad Oaks behind Blockbusters on Tolworth Broadway, KT6. Pictured on the right, with bulbs in donated "planters".
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For a 2016 list of other community gardens see http://ttkingston.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Comm-gdns-flier.pdf
Wild flowers
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