Let’s Go Let’s Grow - new kitchen garden named after Church Street estate champion Ron Perry

Published: 19 February 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM

WHO was it who said “when the growing gets tough, the tough get growing”? 

In the depth of winter, Westminster Lord Mayor Duncan Sandys has launched a new kitchen garden on the Church Street estate, to the delight of green-fingered residents.

The garden was established by Let’s Go Let’s Grow, an organisation which has already set up a number of community vegetable plots in Westminster, and is named after Ron Perry, a community pillar of Church Street, who died five years ago. 

The launch was attended by his widow, Winnifred Perry, 93, who said: “He would have been so proud. He was a magistrate at Marylebone court and a very strong trade unionist. He went around and helped people and he always got the right message through.”

Meanwhile neighbours are already preparing their crop of sprouts, chard, carrots and beets. Mohammad Sadaty has joined the queue for a plot, describing the garden as “a great project”, while his son, Mustafa, has signed up for twice-weekly chores. He said: “I like watering the best because you don’t get dirty.”