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Dobies’ Sale Seeds

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On November 5, 2023

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Dobies have a seed sale on at the moment.

Please note this is the online seed merchants, not the local Dobbies’s Garden Centre.

If you miss the deadline, remember you can get a 40% discount on seed prices throughout the year when you use our Garthdee Field Discount Voucher. Copes of their 2024 Catalogue and a letter with the NEW Discount Code are available in the Octagon. Order online at your convenience, but you MUST use the code at the point of ordering to get the Garthdee Field 40% discount.

I am not sure our code will work with these sale purchases. Let us know if you find it does.

There are still lots of free seed packets in the Octagon Seed-Swop – many current and viable.

Seed Sale Alert

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On October 21, 2023

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Thanks go to Pete (Plot 33) who passed on the alert and suggested this post.

DT Brown have bargain seeds for sale right now – but their sale ends at Midnight Sunday 22 October 2023. Jump in now and grab yourselves a bargain or three.

September Community Sunday 2023

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On September 14, 2023

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Yes, believe it or not, it’s the third Sunday of the month again, and so the wait is over, and it is time to come and enjoy another Community Sunday on Garthdee Field.

The coffee’s on the brew, the cakes are in the oven, and all we ask in return is a wee spot of your perspiration on this Sunday 17th September to help us keep our site in tip-top, lickity-split condition. Details in the poster. Do come and share a natter with your fellow plotters and our ace Volunteer Squad.

Community Sunday July

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On July 21, 2023

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If the weather cooperates we hope to hold our first Community Sunday in a while this week – the last two have been rained off. With IYN and Green Flag assessments upcoming, it would be great to have plotters, volunteers and friends along to help with essential site maintenance tasks and some special new projects.

Toilet Troubles

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On June 14, 2023

In Equipment, News

Regular users will have noticed that the wee compostable toilet at the top of the site is currently locked and no longer able to accept deposits.

Toilet duties

We are very grateful to Stewart Gilchrist who has continued to maintain the toilets, despite no longer being a member of the Committee. Unfortunately, Stewart had reported several incidents of late when the small toilet has been used inappropriately and solids have been dropped into the liquids bowl and then sawdust added, so causing a complete blockage of the loo. Needless to say putting this right is a far from a pleasant business – and it is very time consuming.

We are not quite sure why this is happening so frequently now after many years of successful operation. However, it is clearly not fair on Stewart that he has to put up with the extra cleaning up on a regular basis.

While we investigate solutions to this problem, the small toilet will be kept locked. The larger loo by the Community Garden is of course still available.

Suggestions as to how to go forward with the smaller loo will be welcomed.

Dung and/or Compost Opportunity

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On April 14, 2023

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We were all disappointed to find that our local supply of cow dung had dried up – so to speak! We are investigating alternatives which can be delivered in bigger tonnages – of domestic green waste compost and/or manure.

The scrapping of the containers from site produced a one-off windfall for GFAA funds and we hope to make around four barrowloads of dung and/or domestic green waste compost available free of charge to GFAA members.

We fear demand my outpace supply, so requests will be fulfilled on a first come, first served basis while supplies last.

If you are interested, please leave a comment below this post with your name and plot number. The compost/dung will be delivered to your plot once it is available. This may take a few weeks to organise. Bear with us.

If things work out and there is enough interest we may try to repeat this exercise.

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