Come and enjoy this years Harvest Festival at the garden - anyone who came last year can tell you what a great day out it was!
11am Bring your competition entries:
* Bake a garden-themed cake or traybake (to be served at 3pm, after judgingPlease mark your container with your name, name of cake and ingredients
* Build a plant portrait: a head or face made from fruit and vegetables.
Label your plant portrait with your name and age
* Make a flower arrangement on the theme of ‘What will the harvest be?’
in own container (not exceeding 75cm h x 50cm w x 50cm d)
12 noon Harvest Festival opens
Garden tours, tea and cake throughout the afternoon
12-3pm Activities
* Build a head or face from vegetables to enter into our plant portrait competition
* Print a patchwork of patterns with potatoes and natural plant dyes and juices
* Make a miniature bouquet of paper collage flowers
* Sew some bunting or take away a piece to sew at home
1.30pm Cookery and tastings
2pm Live flower arranging (entries can be submitted to the competition)
3pm Competition judging
4pm Harvest Festival closes
Topics: [competitions] [events] [Harvest] [Harvest Festival]
A word of support for our pals at NVA who are holding 'Glasgow Harvest' on August 28th at the Hidden Gardens at Tramway in Glasgow, part of SAGE (Sow and Grow Everywhere) which are cunning portable growbags distributed throughout Glasgow and the Clyde Valley. Keen to dismiss the myth that chips are the only vegetable popular in the city, the event isn't at all po-faced- there is even a luscious sounding 'Jam Wall' planned!
or if you do Facebook, here
is a new website petitioning for more public space to be used to grow food - it looks worth signing up for certainly, hopefully they know about us too!
Topics: [Public Space]
Hamish is back from his holidays but there is practically a Euro-Exit from the core FOAG group all making their way to the continent for the summer holiday period. So, for those of us staying in the UK there is a LOT of produce to harvest ... if you're spending the summer in London you could do a lot worse than some light weeding at Abbey Gardens in return for lots of nice veg - come and join us for a gardening session:
Saturdays 10am - 3pm
Tuesdays 1pm - 3pm
Thursdays 4pm - dusk
Hamish was excited to find this unexpected visitor in our raised beds ... it's a parasitic plant apparently, we think just the 'common' Broomrape but we're not 100% sure. Any experts out there chip in!
Topics: [broomrape ]
The Friends of Abbey Gardens will be having lunch at Abbey Gardens this Saturday 17 June at 1pm.
We have decided to advance this nationwide event and have lunch as part of our regular gardening session. We would like to ask everyone to bring food to share. We will get the BBQ going so feel free to bring anything you would like to cook. We have lots of potatoes and onions to make potato salad and lettuce for the green stuff. If you are lucky we will still have some artichokes left. Any contributions of cakes for pudding will be greatly appreciated!
Sadly Karen and I will both miss this event - Karen is opening her own garden as part of the NGS scheme and I will be away filming on the Essex coast - the regular FOAG gang will all be there though & new visitors are always welcome.
I've been asked to talk about What Will the Harvest Be? as part of a season called (like it) 'This Land is Your Land' at the CCA gallery in Glasgow tomorrow, Saturday 10th July at 3.30pm
Do come if you can. Details here.
Topics: [talk ]
The real high point of the weekend was the arrival of our FANTASTIC new honesty stall, designed by Andreas Lang of Public Works and also one of the founders of the Friends of Abbey Gardens. We immediately stocked it on arrival and it made a brilliant focus at the entrance (also with new gate!) to the garden.
I love the photo of 'team FOAG' from the Open Garden Squares weekend. We had about 100 visitors across the two days. Some were familiar faces but quite a few were new locals finding us for the first time. A handful of folk also came from much further afield via the bigger scheme.
Dasha did us proud with a dill and broad bean pilaf making the most of the first real harvest of the season.
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