Patron HRH The Princess Royal
Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society
Demonstration Allotment
At Bridgend
The allotment is located at the Bridgend allotment site on the
 Old Dalkeith Road south of the Cameron Toll roundabout
on the way to the new Royal Infirmary, opposite the entrance to the Inch nursery.
You enter by a gate immediately beyond the cottages on the LH side of the road
and the demonstration allotment is adjacent to the Portacabin belonging to the
 Bridgend Community Health Project.
04.02.12
Pictures by Moira Stevenson

Photographs show:

Ripening Victoria plums                                               Potato crop                                            Louise Bonne pear

Ken Cox has requested that members have a look at the attached questionnaire. Please click here to print off - once completed please send directly to Ken Cox at the address shown on top of the document.

Dear all

We celebrated the start of our gardening year with a fine bonfire last week so now there is a good pile of  potassium-rich ash to spread around the fruit.  It was left to cool down but this week it was quite frozen so the spreading has been left for another time.


All the beds have had a quick hoe and today since the ground was frozen, we topped up the paths with woodchips, tidied out the hut and made sure everything was labelled for the fruit pruning workshop this coming Saturday.


The rabbits are ever with us and usually they leave the Swiss chard alone but the cold weather has made them less choosy and the leaves have been gnawed down. It is now netted and we must try and remember to net it earlier next winter.

Photographs show:


   Warming up round the bonfire

   What the rabbits left of the chard

Dates for your Diary


Saturday 4 February 10am-12pm. George Anderson leads a fruit pruning workshop on the Bridgend allotment site


Sunday 26 February 11am-3pm   Potato Day on the Bridgend allotment site.  A chance to buy a good selection of organic seed potatoes.. You can buy as few or as many tubers as you wish so a good opportunity to try out several different varieties.


Our annual allotment OPEN DAY  Sunday 19 August 2pm-4.30pm.  Produce, jam, plants, teas

Jobs for next week


Working on clearing the communal area adjacent to the allotment

Weeding the flower beds in the chalet garden

See you on Thursday

Regards


Moira


Moira’s Blog
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Winter Fruit Pruning Workshop
 Saturday 4th February 10am- noon
 Demonstration and Instruction by George Anderson
 Bridgend Allotment site.
 to book a place, please email   rchsallotment@gmail.com
If you missed the visit to the Caley's demonstration allotment
( first organic allotment site in the UK)
 you can always visit the site on any Thursday morning
when the ‘volunteers’ will be working away.   
The last Open Day was held on Sunday 24th July 2011
Our Annual Open Day this year will be on
Sunday 19th August 2012
 Workshops, produce plus tea and cakes.