Moss Vale Community Garden

05/06/2026

Gardeners this morning fixing an error of roaming mint,
should never be planted in garden beds.
Please use pots.
I can smell it from here 🐝🌻

05/06/2026

🎉 Congratulations to Sandra N, the winner of our Autumn Sale raffle!
Sandra took home an incredible prize pack donated by our wonderful sponsors Gubbins Mitre 10, Southern Highlands — including a Gorilla cart, sugar cane mulch, watering can, pots and a whole lot more to keep her garden thriving! 🛒🌱
A huge thank you to Gubbins Mitre 10 for their generous support of the Moss Vale Community Garden. We are so lucky to have such a wonderful community behind us. 💚
We hope you enjoy every bit of it, Sandra! 🎟️🍂

15/05/2026

🌺 FREE BROMELIADS — yes, really!
We've got a great range of bromeliads at the garden that need new homes. Unknown varieties, but very much alive and thriving — some are even flowering right now! Lots of pots ready to divide, so come and take your pick.

📅 Drop in Monday or Thursday, 10am–4pm
📩 Or message us to have some put aside

15/05/2026

Yesterday we got our hands dirty sowing green manure crops at the garden 🌱

Green manures are planted for soil improvement — they add organic matter, nitrogen, and boost the soil microbiome, which is vital for healthy plant growth.

Green manure crops are typically fast-growing and can include mustard, buckwheat, oats, sorghum, clover, lucerne, radish, and broad beans. Adding legumes like beans, peas, and lucerne brings extra benefits. Their roots form partnerships with rhizobia - bacteria that draw nitrogen from the air and release it into the soil as the plant decomposes, feeding future crops.

This year, we're using a special mix put together by Mel from The Brickworks Farm Seedlings — a long-time friend and supporter of MVCG. Thank you Mel! 🙏

Our method: spread compost and dolomite lime over the bed, broadcast the seeds, rake gently to distribute and just cover them, then cross our fingers for rain (or we water in)! We cut the crop down before it fully flowers, as nutrient levels drop once flowering begins.

Want to learn more about green manure rotations? Milkwood Permaculture has a wonderful article here: https://www.milkwood.net/2021/03/12/how-to-grow-green-manures/

Have you grown green manure crops before? We'd love to hear what worked for you 👇

05/05/2026

The sun was shining as local supporters came in to browse plants at our Autumn fundraiser sale.

And thank you Sophie, who kindly drew the winning tickets for first & second prizes in our raffle sponsored by our local Mitre10 in Moss Vale.

In fact THANKYOU EVERYONE who came along and contributed in some way.

Our community is important to us and your support enables us to keep developing and providing information & services in return.

24/04/2026

🍂 Our Autumn Sale is nearly here!

A big shoutout to our friends at Gubbins Mitre 10, Southern Highlands — long-time supporters of the Moss Vale Community Garden and proud sponsors of our Autumn Sale Day! 🙌
They've donated an incredible raffle prize pack including a gorilla cart, spade, mulch, potting mix and more. You'll want to be in the draw for this one! 🎟️

We have a wonderful selection of locally grown plants on offer:
🌿 Marionberries, raspberries, boysenberries, thornless blackberries, elephant garlic, yacon, clematis, daylilies, aloe, comfrey, hellebores, currants, succulents, herbs, turmeric, rhubarb, bromeliads — and preserves!
All grown right here in the Southern Highlands. 🏔️

Come along, explore our beautiful garden, and grab yourself a plant or two!

📅 Saturday 2nd May, 10am–2pm
📍 Moss Vale Community Garden, Railway Street, Moss Vale (next to the tennis courts)

22/04/2026

🌱 Young Hands in the Garden!
Recently we had the pleasure of welcoming Year 8 students from Oxley College as part of their Service Learning Program — and what a wonderful visit it was!

The students got stuck into all sorts of garden tasks: worm farming, composting, sheet mulching, and potting seedlings for our upcoming Autumn Sale. They even got to touch and taste some of the produce ready for harvest — always a highlight!

Oxley's Service Learning program is built around the belief that volunteering is about more than donations — it's about giving time, energy and skills to build real connections with your local community. We couldn't agree more, and we felt that spirit in every pair of hands that helped out.
Thank you to the Oxley Year 8 students and their teachers for choosing MVCG as part of their journey. We hope it's the start of a long friendship. 💚

🌿 MVCG is open Mondays & Thursdays — drop by to say hi, or bring your gloves and join us!

20/04/2026

We had fun turning our organically-grown excess berries, plums, apricots and cherries into jams last week.

All those end-of-season green tomatoes are next with plans for pickles and chutney.

These bottled preserves will be available on our sale table at our Mega Autumn Plant sale on 2nd May (from 10am till 2pm) at Moss Vale Community Garden in Railway St, Moss Vale.

Come in and say "Hi!" 👋

07/04/2026

06/03/2026