Food Growing Essentials: Plants and Planks
Growing your own vegetables? Get a helping hand on your plot this growing season with locally grown food plants, compost and garden structure resources from Organiclea and Forest Recycling Project.
Available to order or buy direct from one of our plant stalls (see below for dates)

•    Hand-raised organic transplants: vegetable plants, herbs and flowers that have been grown at our Hawkwood site, available from mid-April to community growing sites across London and at our local plant stalls. These plants will do well as they have been glasshouse-raised and are very strong and healthy – just waiting to be planted on.
•    Compost: we can supply sacks of top-quality organic compost (great soil improver); and seed sowing and potting mixes (made to our special recipes!).
•    Garden structure essentials: scaffold boards, pallets, woodchip… reclaimed materials that can help you build your raised beds, paths and compost bays, simply charging our labour and transport costs.

Discount: We offer discount prices for bulk orders and to Capital Growth food-growing gardens.
Delivery: we can deliver large orders across Northeast London for a small fee to cover fuel and driver costs.

How to buy:

Download our ‘plants and planks’ order form here to see details of what’s available.
* Contact Clare at Organiclea’s Hawkwood site to order plants.
Email the form to plant@organiclea.org.uk, call 020 8524 4994 or bring your order form to the Hawkwood site (opening times here).
* Contact Brian at Forest Recycling Project to order structure resources.
Call 020 8539 3856 or email brian[at]frponline.org.uk

Plant stalls
Our plants and compost will be for sale at Hawkwood Nursery and at market stalls and community events around Waltham Forest and beyond in May-June 2011:
Monday 2 May: Plant stall at Hawkwood and free taster training sessions at Organiclea’s Hawwkwood growing site  Thursday 5 May: compost week event at Kings Road Recycling Centre, E4, 10-3
Saturday 7 May: Growing Communities Farmers’ Market, William Patten School, Stoke Newington Church Street, N16 0NX, 10-2.30
Sunday 8 May: London Fields Farmers’ Market, London Fields Primary School, 10-2
Saturday 14 May: Growing Communities Farmers’ Market, 10-2
Saturday 14 May: at the Hornbeam Centre and Cafe, 458 Hoe Street, Walthamstow, E17 9AH, 10-2
Sunday 15 May: Walthamstow Farmers’ Market, in the Town Square by Selbourne Walk shopping centre (in front of the Central Library), 10-2
Saturday 21 May: Growing Communities Farmers’ Market, 10-2.30
Saturday 21 May: at the Hornbeam Centre and Cafe, 10-2
Saturday 28 May: at the Hornbeam Centre and Cafe, 10-2
Sunday 29 May: Hawkwood community plant nursery, 115 Hawkwood Crescent, E4 7UH. Regular monthly open day, 12-4 (Site tour at 12)
Sunday 29 May: Chatsworth Road market, E5, 11-4
Sunday 5 June: Walthamstow Farmers Market, 10-2
Saturday-Sunday 4/5 June: London Green Fair (Regent’s Park)
Saturday 11 June: Growing Communities Farmers’ Market, 10-2.30
Sunday 12 June: Chatsworth Road market, E5, 11-4
Saturday 25 June: Chingford Village Festival, Chingford Green, 12-4

ALSO buy plants every Thursday, 12-6pm at our Hawkwood growing site from 12 May until 30 June – drop by to pick up healthy vegetable plants!

At all our plant stalls you have the chance to chat to growers, get aftercare tips and share advice. Look out for squash, courgette, sweet corn and other seedlings that are commonly lost to slugs!

Return your pots
Organiclea reuses plant pots. They can be returned to the Hawkwood Plant Nursery in Chingford, or the Hornbeam Centre in Walthamstow.

Adopt a fruit tree
Join Organiclea’s Orchard Project and help us plant over 200 fruit trees in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. Click on the image for more information.