Cove Community Garden

31/03/2026

Have you thought about becoming a Cove Community Garden member?

For only $30 a year ($24 concession) for 12 months, you can:

🌳 Have whole household/family membership
🌻 Access garden anytime dawn to dusk
🌸 Be a voting member
🌱 Access shared community beds
🏡 Help shape our garden into the future
👩🏼‍🌾 Garden together in a beautiful community
🍅 Lease your own wicking bed (subject to availability, additional charges apply)

Other membership options available too!

🙋‍♀️Questions? Reach out to us! [email protected]

31/03/2026

✨️UPDATE!✨

🏡️We are very excited to be having some new pathways installed in our garden 🚜🌳

👩🏼‍🌾 These new paths will help improve accessibility, with works commencing today.
🏭We are also having a foundation built for our new shed.

It's great to see more and more of the community garden space being created and developed to support our wonderful volunteers and community members to grow together 🌸🌻

07/02/2026

Everything is looking so lush! We are open every Sunday at 10am. Come and say hi! 🌞🌻🍅

04/01/2026

Happy New Year!

What are your gardening plans/goals for 2026?

We are gearing up for the Harvest Festival in February when we open our garden up to the public for the first time. Which means ensuring the edible side of the garden is flourishing. But the rest of the garden beds to look good so we are busy beavering away at jobs we've had on our 'To do list' for years.

Succession planting is the key to continuous supply and from the planting guide there are punnets in the greenhouse with lettuce, rocket, coriander, and spring onion. In the garden I have direct sown radish, dill and pak choi.

One of my goals is to update the planting guide. The difference between the hills and the plains is not as big as it once was. You can easily put a crop of the plants with an asterisk next to them and I will be doing just that.

A second crop of tomatoes, zucchinis and cucumbers is definitely worth it. Plants started in Spring will lose their puff by early Autumn and production will slow down. Planting another crop now will result in plants in top gear in Autumn. Yes, you can make the zucchini season go on and on and on..... 🤣

The caveat is those in areas that get heavy frosts as an early Autumn frost will wipe out your best laid plans. It's a gamble that I take every year and often it pays off.

16/11/2025

We now have a beautiful new "no dig" pollinator garden thanks to these absolute legends who came out today! 🌱🌷

What a wonderful morning! Thanks to all who came along:

👏🏼 Chloe, Puneet, David, Hanne, Eleanor, John, Grace, Dee, Will and Sarah! What a team 👏🏼

The layers to the no dig garden are:

1. Gypsum
2. Cardboard
3. Twigs and leaves
4. Pea straw
5. Mushroom compost
6. Plants
5. More pea straw
6. Organic mulch

Now we should get some lovely pollinators to visit 🐝🦋

Thanks to Green Adelaide for funding this initiative 💚

02/11/2025

Happy National Community Gardens Day! 🌱🍏🍓🍉🍇

01/11/2025

We are out here 10am Sundays, rain hail or shine! Lovely to have some rain this morning! 🌧

27/10/2025

Come and join us for our "no dig" garden workshop on Sunday 16 November at 10am 🌱

01/10/2025

This event should be awesome!

Don’t miss out on this fabulous event hosted by !

Lots to learn, people to meet, a garden to explore and fabulous food!

Join us at .north.community.garden on October 11 from 10-3pm.

Ticket link https://events.humanitix.com/2025-sa-community-gardens-gathering

28/05/2025

Today we met with Rebecca, the Director of Hallett Cove Karrara Kindergarten to talk about how we can work together with the kindy to support children to have a place to come and learn all about sustainable gardening.

We are really excited about what the future holds! Thanks Rebecca! 🌱

Also, check out our new yarning circle! We have some lovely timber seats from tree offcuts now, thanks to City of Marion 🪵

Hallett Cove Karrara Kindergarten

25/05/2025

Thanks to the wonderful group of volunteers who came out today together with Kym Ormond to build our first no-dig native pollinator garden!

This area of the garden has services underneath and is compacted, so we opted for a no dig garden, which involves creating layers like a birthday cake above the soil to build the garden up from the ground 🎂 Like the name suggests, there is no digging needed!

📈 Initially we spent a bit of time levelling the soil roughly with spades as it's on a slope
🪵 We laid out the timber edging and screwed the edges together
👨‍🌾 We added gypsum as the bottom layer of the garden bed to help break down the clay
📦 Cardboard was next to stop w**d growth
🍂 Leaves and sticks were put on top which will break down over time
🍄 Mushroom compost was next along with some aged cow manure
👩‍🌾 Then came the some garden soil/compost mix
🌱 Our native plants finally went in! We had lots of native grasses along with some goodenia, paper daisies and karkalla.
🌸 We topped it off with a lovely mulch layer.
💧 Of course our garden was then completed with a lovely watering!

Gradually the plants will grow their roots into the soil below, helped along by the gypsum layer underneath to break down the clay. We hope to bring in lots of bees, butterflies and other pollinators 🐝🦋

Thanks to Green Adelaide for the grant to make this happen!