The Allotment Market Stall (TAMS) Team are holding a thank you event this week for all who contributed to their collections this season.
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Stuart
Our GFAA AGM will be held this Saturday at 11.00 on the RGU Campus. The short formal AGM will be followed by an informal General Meeting that will include a talk by Bruce Taylor from Plot 79 entitled, “Soil Health and how to Improve it”. Bruce has just finished a Masters Degree in Soil Science and has recent approaches and practical experiences to share.
We have moved this AGM to this new time on a Saturday to avoid dragging plotters out on cold, wet, dark evenings as before and are hoping for a big turnout.
See details below.
It is with great pleasure that I can tell all GFAA members, volunteers and friends that at the recent Britain in Bloom hosted, It’s Your Neighbourhood Awards Day, GFAA were awarded an Outstanding Level Award and, better still, our first Certificate of Distinction. Gill and Phil attended the event on our behalf.
Our IYN Assessors, Ian and Sandra Maclennan, were full of praise and warm words for your efforts and achievements over the season. A copy of their Garthdee Field Allotments Association 2017 report is attached. The Evening Express Coverage was very positive about GFAA.
We are obviously delighted with this success and I want to thank all who contributed to the effort over the year. It’s been a super season on so many fronts, but nothing could be done without the continued support of plotters, volunteers and friends.
We are planning to share congratulations and celebrations at our up-coming AGM and General Meeting on Saturday 4 November at 11.00am at RGU Riverside East Building Room 346. I hope we will have a really big turnout. Everyone is welcome. We want your help to set directions and priorities for the coming year.
With best wishes, Stuart.
This message arrived from Lizzy Shepherd of Gone to Seed. I know many plotters visited and enjoyed the Tarland event last year.
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I hope you are busy saving seed to share with your friends and to bring along to the 2018 Seed Swap and Potato Day being held in Tarland on Saturday 24th February.
So far I have saved carrot, mangetout, cutting celery and flat leaf parsley seed; hopefully, the leek seed will have time to fully ripen…not sure yet. The photo shows how attractive the carrot and leek seed heads look, it’s worth growing them just for that!
If you would like to get hold of some of the seed envelopes now, please drop me a line and I will try and see if we can get them to you. They will be available in a few locations early next year as well, or just bring your seed along on the day and put them into envelopes there.
In the meantime, there are some really useful clips below on how to go about saving seed and isolation techniques etc:
I hope that you find these useful. We will be running another seed saving workshop at the seed swap and potato day in 2018, so why not come along to that session and learn more.
Lizzy
Gone to Seed
Post made on behalf of Susan:
Stuart
It was wonderful this week to see Garthdee Field so prominent in the Allotments Section of the Aberdeen in Bloom Annual Garden Competition. We had the biggest number of entries, showing our continued support for the City Council’s efforts to promote gardening and allotments.
It was great to see so many new entrants from GFAA there at the Civic Reception to collect their certificates and prizes from the Lord Provost. GFAA can claim to have dominated the six prizes, occupying as we did places six, five, four and two.
But the night really belonged to our own GFAA superstar – Sandy Inkster. Not only did Sandy take our top ranking second prize for his allotment, but also he came in first in the Garden Display section for the whole city and took the overall outstanding entrant award. What a wonderful result!
Hearty congratulations go to Sandy and all the other prize and certificate winners and thanks are due to all plotters who entered from our site.