By Marilyn Barber | newseditor@dorsetview.co.uk

We may have all been struggling with our gardens during the recent hot dry spell but over in the Wimborne Community Garden they have been having huge success.

It was started on 7 May in association with Beaucroft College with the intention of transforming part of a playing field into a vegetable and flower garden.

The garden has blossomed with the vegetable beds producing beans, tomatoes, potatoes, beetroot, sweetcorn, red onions, herbs, courgettes and lettuces which have been shared with the Food Bank and Community Kitchen, neighbours and volunteers. Spokesman Jane Benson said: “A flower bed runs along the fence and the sunflowers, grown by Beaucroft students, look delightful amongst the cornflowers, rudbeckia and verbena and have drawn many compliments from those passing by. So it’s fair to say the garden is on its way; however, it is yet to be made official but that is soon to be put right.”

On Sunday 11 September from 3 to 4.30pm the Mayor of Wimborne Cllr Carol Butter, is to officially open the garden.

Jane added; “Rumour has it that instead of launching the garden with a bottle of champagne as is the tradition with ships, the garden is to be launched through means of a pumpkin. Rest assured, the pumpkin will not be damaged in the process.”

Everyone is so welcome to attend.

The garden is to be found adjacent to Redcotts recreation ground and is always open on a Wednesday morning, Friday afternoon and Sunday afternoon.

To find out more see: wimbornecommunitygarden@gmail.com, https://m.facebook.com/Wimborne-Community-Garden-in-association- with-Beaucroft-College-102736952411786 or phone 07502429668

If anyone has any old decking wood such as tanalised timber, the group would be delighted to receive it as they are using it to make clean edging for all the veggie beds.