Thanks go to Phil for this post and photo:
Here’s Val ready to cycle home with a rucksack of blossom. Did it see home or get blown away on the journey????
Tag: members
With the promise of a new season just a few weeks away now a wee wander round our site today showed just how well on the winter digging was going on many of our plots.
It was nice to see so many of these plots were, ‘under new management’ this year and that things were off to a flying start for the year ahead. It’s very encouraging to see such keen new starters join our association. With apologies to those others who were not featured above.
Some sad news.
We’re sorry to announce the passing on 31 October of another long-serving plotter. Randall (Plot 94B) took on plot 94 in 1989 but for several years before that he helped his father-in law Norman McLeod who held the plot. Randall was kind-hearted, loved the outdoors and had a soft spot for all birds and animals many of whom he rescued when they were hurt or in distress.
He grew some fine produce in his time and when I had just started plotting I would occasionally come across a bag of quality carrots and the like hanging on the handle of our front door. Perhaps it made me a little jealous but it inspired me to emulate his example. He was 77 and latterly suffered from a very aggressive form of Alzheimer’s.
Stuart
Sadly our longest serving plotter Frank Laird passed away on Tuesday 19th July. Frank started at Garthdee allotments in 1968 on Plot 26. Frank was well respected at the allotment and always had a friendly greeting for other plotters. As you might guess he accumulated a lot of helpful information regarding growing vegetables which he readily shared with other plotters. Our sympathies go to his wife Peggy and family.
Thanks 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?
Some photographs from the second annual BBQ by the Garthdee Fields Allotments Association. The event was greatly helped by clear blue skies, scorching hot sunshine and plenty of food. If this wasn’t enough the GFAA held a raffle!
