Hungerford allotment blog - grow your own, harvesting and vegetarian cooking. Enjoying allotment wildlife, weather and other things that catch my attention.
Enjoying time on the Marsh Lane Allotment site in Hungerford, Berkshire.
A record of successes, failures and a handy reminder for me.
From 2017 each post title brings a song to add a little extra music to the world - enjoy!
I love it when a plan comes together! The Town Hall steps was a great location for our plant sale yesterday.
Setting up
Our lovely plotholders, from the Marsh Lane and Fairfields sites, provided us with masses of plants: courgettes, pumpkins, tomatoes, peppers, brassica, chard, flowers, herbs, and more unusual items like ornamental grasses, cucamelon and celeriac. Also bags of gooseberries and rhubarb.
The sales team: Forbes, Kerry, Andy, me and Gill
We had so many plants that we easily covered the three trestle tables and could re-stock each time an empty spot appeared. It was lovely talking to the many visitors about the allotments and how we're getting on with our growing this year. And we managed to advertise our Open Day (8th July) quite a lot - that's the next thing for us to start planning...
Trying to answer gardening questions
The sun shone (most of the time- though I've added a bit of extra sunshine to these photos) so there were a lot of people in the town and the Coffee morning for cancer inside the Town Hall was handy! We made about £100 total profit, which is great but the main point of the sale is to promote the allotments.
Encouraging the younger generation
Adorned with our HAHA aprons (bought through a Tesco Bags of Help grant) we had a great day with lots of fun and smiles.
Much better than "Smile, though your heart is aching". Hat's off to you. I have recently organised sales at the school garden gate, which is easier because you have the goodwill of of the parents.
Song title courtesy of Lily Allen.
Gooseberries already!
ReplyDeleteI know! Another of our highly-skilled older plotholders. It seems they have tricks :-)
DeleteMuch better than "Smile, though your heart is aching". Hat's off to you. I have recently organised sales at the school garden gate, which is easier because you have the goodwill of of the parents.
ReplyDeleteThat's a good idea. We have quite a few parents who are plotholders so they may be up for that
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