Grow Greener with Garthdee Field Allotments Association

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Prizes on Parade

It was another great night for GFAA at this week’s Aberdeen in Bloom Reception and Prize Awards.

Special congratulations go to Susan and Phil (Plot 35) as they topped the GFAA rankings this year with their third place overall in the Aberdeen Cities Allotment Gardens Competition (Category 8).

As always, Sandy Inkster took pride of place, however, with his First Prize in the City Gardens Competition.  Here’s Sandy taking his place with the other first Prize winners.  Well done Sandy!

Thanks go to Aberdeen City Council and Deputy Provost, Alan Donnelly for hosting the event and to Pat Wilson for her first class work behind the scenes and on the night.  Thanks too to all the GFAA Plotters who entered and flew the flag for GFAA in support of the Council’s gardening efforts.

Orchard Brae Visitors

Orchard Brae called this week wishing to visit our allotment site. They arrived just after 1 pm yesterday – one minibus load driven by Roddy. They stayed for an hour having a walk round admiring the many varieties of vegetables and flowers on display particularly Steve’s sunflowers – plot 37. We bumped into Gill at plot 29 who gave them some plums and rasps to their great delight. We stopped off briefly in the Octagon for some plums to eat and apples to take away. A very pleasant interlude for all concerned on a lovely sunny day.

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IYN Assessment Visit 2018

We enjoyed a supportive and formative It’s Your Neighbourhood Assessment visit on Thursday from our new assessors, Steven Shaw and Daniel Shand.

Steven and Daniel seemed impressed with our efforts over the year and went out of their way to comment on the friendly buzz they notice on their visits to Garthdee Field.  They also offered us lots of encouragement and helpful advice, especially about what actions will be needed if we decide to go for Green Flag status in the coming year.

It will be some wee time before we know the outcome of our assessment, so please cross your fingers and watch this space!

Community Sunday August 2018

Thanks to everyone who made it along to help us prepare the site for our IYN Assessment.  It was wonderful to see such a good turnout on what started out as a very unpromising day weather-wise.  A special thanks to Alice (Plot Micro 2c) on her first outing on a Community Sunday and to the magnificent bakers.

What a team!

Community Sunday July 2018

Many thanks to all who helped out yesterday at our Community Sunday. Some really hard work was done with the Primary School plot completely weeded as well as all the raised beds – all in an hour and a half. Special mention for Ava from plot 38 who gathered up stones unearthed during earlier weeding- and she’s only 8 but she did a great job.

Bees’ needs abound

Am I right in thinking there have been more bees around this year?  I guess the weather has been to their liking.  However, it’s clear they need all the help we can offer them.  This is Bees’ Needs Week.  Check out these ideas for helping them out.

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