Drum roll please...
5 a day ...
We have just taken a delivery of different fruit trees and
bushes. Cherry Morello, Plum Victoria, Currant 'Red Lake', Vaccinium Patriot - Blueberry, Vaccinium Spartan - Blueberry, Raspberry Autumn Bliss, Raspberry Glen Lyon
These were potted up last weekend, for the Plant Sales, but are available to members with immediate effect! Now/soon is a good time to be planting, assuming that you can either batter a hole in the earth, which may still be standing hard as iron, or hold back the tide long enough. (We're pretty much manning the lifeboats at the moment on Hagg Lane).
Pot luck
There's no truth to the rumour that a watched pot never
boils, as the society pot will certainly be boiling on Thursday February
22nd! 10am - 12noon. And there will be cake... and just a small
catch. Yes, we are holding a pot-sorting-out
party (woohoo) on the society plot.
Dress code - casual, but gloves recommended. Many plant pots, in many
different sizes, have been donated to us over the past few months, and we have
now reached the point of needing ones of a certain size, only to be faced with
an avalanche of the wrong pots. Serious
stuff! So we have invented a fun game of
chucking small, medium and large pots into different bags (BIG bags) and the
person who sorts the most may even get a valuable mystery prize (which will probably
look suspiciously like a goody bag of random pots...). If you can spare an hour
or two, this promises to be a fun activity in the shelter of the
polytunnel. Go on! You know you need to get out more. Following
this wild party, we should be able to offer members the chance to boost their
own collection of random pots
.
Seed dispersal
.
Itchy fingers? It's
almost time. We will shortly be sowing
seeds for the Plant Sales and welcome anyone who can help by nurturing a
tray/pot of seeds for us. We can provide
the seeds, compost and pots (of course)!
You've only got to say, and we will hand over with unseemly haste.
