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Our Beechgrove Celebrity

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On October 15, 2017

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There was only one topic of conversation on site this weekend.  Everyone was talking about Sandy Inkster’s appearance on Beechgrove Garden.

It was wonderful to see the Beechgrove team’s recognition of Sandy’s expertise and knowledge when they visited on the occasion of his winning the P&J Garden Competition for the whole of the North East. It was lovely too to see the warmth of Carole Baxter’s appreciation of Sandy’s efforts in his ninetieth year and the esteem in which she clearly holds him.

I am sure we all want to join in offering hearty congratulations to Sandy and his wife.  They have built a garden the rest of us can only dream of having.

 

Diary date for seed lovers

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On October 6, 2017

In Dates, Events, News

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

New beginnings and new enthusiasts

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On October 5, 2017

In News, Photos

It’s that time of year when plots begin to change hands.  All around the site there are signs of new plotters bringing extra energy to their newly acquired plots.  This wee detail on one caught my eye today.

It’s a reminder that identifying your plot (which is a Council requirement) can be very attractive and effective without being expensive.

The great Poly-Tunnel clean-up

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On October 4, 2017

In Advice, Events, News

Post made on behalf of Susan:

Aberdeen in Bloom Garden Competition

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On September 24, 2017

In Events, News

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.

It’s Your Neighbourhood – D-Day

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On August 17, 2017

In Events, News

It was a pleasure as always to have Ian and Sandra on site today to complete our annual assessment for IYN.  Fingers crossed!

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