Carole Baxter from the Beechgrove Garden will revisit us to meet with plotters and record another segment for her Radio Scotland show on Wednesday 18 May from about 10.30 onwards.
If you can be on site then and would like to meet with Carole please let Stuart know in advance of the date. Carole is happy to take on any and all gardening questions.
Plotters and visitors may have noticed some changes around the Community Garden and Orchard of late.
With funding from Aberdeen Greenspace and help from Aberdeen City Council we have been able to define better the planned Primary Plot, add a new field drain and sump to improve drainage in the area and build up the road to level the area between this area and the Polytunnel. Our collaborations with HMP Grampian have borne fruit with the provision of a pergola and a set of garden benches. Work is still ongoing and dependent on securing appropriate funding, but we hope to see further exciting developments in this area, including provision of a disabled toilet and a gazebo for use by plotters and visiting groups in the future.
Watch this space!
Thanks to the Magnificent Seven who helped with the bonfire today. We started in snow at 10.00, but finished in sunshine at 12.30 – largely due to the above and beyond efforts of our helpers. No names, no pack drill, but thanks to all who were able to find the time to help.
It was very satisfying to see our site get a good clear up as tonnes of old wood, rasp canes and the like went up in smoke. It’s amazing how much rubbish we seem to gather over the course of a plotting year.
It was less satisfying to have to wade though the piles of cut grass, weeds, plastic, old metal and other non-combustible debris that were left to be dealt with. Please remember that there is NO facility for the collection of waste from our site and plotters should remove such materials from the site and use their domestic brown or black bins for their disposal – assuming they cannot be composted on individual plots. Remember that most annual green waste is compostable and provides an excellent soil improver – this being the greenest possible form of treatment. Plotters without cars can approach any committee member who will be pleased to help with alternative methods of removal where it is possible.
We are suffering a spate of fly tipping. If you do see anyone dropping off waste on site, please challenge them and take a note of their car numbers, or better still photograph them. Get in touch with a committee member and we will inform the appropriate authorities to take action where and when we can.
GFAA hosted the first of our extended primary school visits this Thursday when Mrs McKenzie brought her Primary 2 class to visit with us. This year we have planned to have a primary 2 and a primary 3 class visit with us on Thursdays over the next 10 weeks and some older classes visit for five weeks in May and June.
All gloved up and ready to go!
The pupils did three activities this week – seed sowing with Jacqui and Gill; tattle planting with Stuart; and soil science with Marion and Norman. Well, actually the last group did compost and dung carting, but a good time was had by all at least!
If you could spare an hour from time to time to help out with these visits, please see any of the above named: We would be delighted to have your help.
We’ve just received a 10 tonne load of manure from the City Council. The load was dumped at the bottom of the site near Plot 20Thanks to Vinny and Anne for passing on this excellent shot of a hard-at-work Stuart.
Any guesses as to what he is about to plant?
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