Dernancourt Community Garden

Dernancourt Community Garden Located on Tea Tree Gully Council land and cared for by our members. Please contact us at: [email protected]

More than a place to grow fruit and vegetables, our garden is about gardening, learning, sharing knowledge and enjoying the wellbeing that comes from being part of a friendly community. In late 2009, Council resolved to investigate the feasibility of a new community garden for the City of Tea Tree Gully, in light of the popularity of Wynn Vale Community Garden set up in the mid-1990s. Following a

survey to residents across the City, around 200 affirmative responses were received. A location was subsequently selected, start-up funding approved by Council and, in early 2012, a new community garden began to unfold at Lyons Reserve, Dernancourt. A volunteer Management Committee meet regularly to discuss garden design, infrastructure, and administrative matters. It is envisaged that the garden will be a place of learning, socialising and friendships across demographics, ages and abilities for many years to come. Residents of TTG are welcome to register their interest to participate, ask questions and share their ideas with the Management Committee.

Spring is around the corner. That means that we are busy getting ready for our Spring Sale. Herb, veg and flower seedlin...
30/08/2026

Spring is around the corner. That means that we are busy getting ready for our Spring Sale. Herb, veg and flower seedlings of both favourites and harder to come by varieties! Put October 17th, 10am in your calendar. 🍆🍅🥬🥦🫑🌶️🥒🌽

Tomato seedlings tall and lanky?They can be potted up, but planted deeply. Tomatoes grow adventitious roots from their s...
23/08/2026

Tomato seedlings tall and lanky?
They can be potted up, but planted deeply. Tomatoes grow adventitious roots from their stems so this works for them. Far too early to put out into the garden in Adelaide and surrounds, we are getting plants ready for our spring sale on October 17. Prepare your garden beds now for planting later. As always, we will have some varieties not commonly available as seedlings as well as tried and proven cultivars.

Clustered flowers like these are great for attracting the good bugs for pollination and to eat the bad bugs.
21/08/2026

Clustered flowers like these are great for attracting the good bugs for pollination and to eat the bad bugs.

Snow peas keep producing over several months
20/08/2026

Snow peas keep producing over several months

These chillies have just kept powering on through winter! Its hard to believe that they are a warm season crop.
18/08/2026

These chillies have just kept powering on through winter! Its hard to believe that they are a warm season crop.

Just down the street from our garden is a walking trail around Hope Valley Reservoir. After working in the garden, its n...
16/08/2026

Just down the street from our garden is a walking trail around Hope Valley Reservoir. After working in the garden, its nice to stop for a bit and enjoy the view.

Preparations for our spring sale have begun. As usual, we are growing a combination of tried and true favourites and som...
08/08/2026

Preparations for our spring sale have begun. As usual, we are growing a combination of tried and true favourites and some harder to get plants.

Daisies and other open flowers, or clustered flowers (umbelliferous) can help attract beneficial insects to your garden....
07/08/2026

Daisies and other open flowers, or clustered flowers (umbelliferous) can help attract beneficial insects to your garden. Beneficial insects serve as pollinators and for part of their life cycle eat the bad bugs. Win - win!

It might be mid winter, but these San Marzano tomatoes just keep cropping. These are grown by a member on a north- south...
02/08/2026

It might be mid winter, but these San Marzano tomatoes just keep cropping. These are grown by a member on a north- south oriented trellis. They have had lower leaves removed to minimise soil splash which can spread disease. An amazing winter success story.

What happens at the garden? Most Saturdays, members come together between 10:00 am and 12:00 pm. Some stay for the full ...
25/07/2026

What happens at the garden?

Most Saturdays, members come together between 10:00 am and 12:00 pm. Some stay for the full two hours, while others can only spare a short time – every contribution is appreciated.

During these sessions, members work together on shared areas of the garden, including community vegetable beds, crop rotation, citrus and fruit trees, beneficial insect gardens, composting and general maintenance. Produce harvested from these shared areas is divided among those who attend on the day.

Every couple of months we also hold a working bee to tackle larger projects, and twice a year we enjoy a shared morning tea or brunch. These are great opportunities to get to know other members and celebrate what we've achieved together.

Members may also rent an individual garden plot. Produce grown in these plots belongs to the plot holder, and we encourage plots to be used for productive food plants.

Address

210 Lyons Road, Dernancourt
Adelaide, SA
5075

Opening Hours

10am - 12pm

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