Braywick Heath Nurseries
We are a small garden garden centre providing volunteering, work experience and employment for adults with support needs
We run a not-for-profit company, supported by paid staff & community volunteers to provide volunteering, work experience and employment for adults with a wide range of support needs. We are currently having a big clear out across our site, and need help moving all of the material to a skip. This will enable us to better use the space we have to expand our operations and better support our volunteers and staff.53 GoodGymers have supported Braywick Heath Nurseries with 84 tasks.
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Upcoming sessions
Tuesday 20th May 2025 9:30am - 11:00am
Tuesday 3rd June 2025 9:30am - 11:00am
Previous sessions
The last of the 6-packs
Tuesday 6th May
Written by Windsor and Maidenhead runner
Laura, Karen and Sheila helped out at Braywick Plant Nurseries, potting up plug plants. It's nearing the end of this job for this season and the greenhouses are looking very full of plants ready to sell. We had the honour of potting up the last of the plants to go into 6-packs (Pelargoniums and Petunias), but also impatiens and lavender. Well done on speedy potting up, and the nursery, as ever, we're grateful for our help
Plugging the Gap
Tuesday 22nd April
Written by Windsor and Maidenhead runner
Braywick Plant Nurseries needed more help with potting up their plug plants, so they can be grown up ready to sell. Didem, Karen and Sheila got a good system going, and got through several trays of plants, keeping Bob busy finding space for them on the sales benches. Great work, team!
Plugging away
Friday 28th March
Written by Diya Singh (she/her)
Four GoodGymers met at Braywick Heath Nursery to help them prepare for a bumper Summer. This meant "plugging" saplings into pots filled with compost.
In a bright back-room, with the radio belting out easy tunes, we plugged away! It was therapeutic, almost. We worked non-stop for 2 hours and must've filled close to 100-200 pots.
Ben, the Nursery manager who worked tirelessly to top up compost, move the filled pots, bring new plugs etc, joked that we had worn him out, we were that efficient! We'll take that as a compliment and look forward to wearing him out again in the future 😂
Plugging the Gap
Tuesday 25th March
Written by Windsor and Maidenhead runner
Goodgym continues to support Braywick Plant Nurseries in planting up thousands of plug plants, ready for growing on ready for sale. Today it was 4 different colours of Lobelia followed by some Petunias. We kept the staff busy topping up the compost and taking the plants away so we could fill up the trays again. It was so satisfying seeing the fruits of our labours all laid out in the greenhouse. A great team effort
A potty morning!
Saturday 22nd March
Written by Jess Smith
Roberta, Anne-Laure and Jess spent a morning potting plant plugs at Braywick Heath Nurseries.
They planted everything from tomatoes to petunias, quickly finding a system which maximised output!
They estimated planting over 500 plugs!!
There are more sessions at Braywick this week. Check the website and get signed up!
Potted Veg
Friday 21st March
Written by Windsor and Maidenhead runner
- Not surprisingly, Spring is the busiest time of year at Braywick Plant Nurseries, and they need help potting up hundreds of plug plants. Today it was all about the veg, and the dream team of Amy, Christine and Sheila joined another volunteer at the potting bench. We potted up courgettes, sweetcorn, sweet peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers, Having completed our 5 veg a day, we hung up our gardening gloves and made our way home
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