A Community Growing Initiative
What better way to spend a Friday than with the crew of BBC Landward and the pupils of Woodside Primary, filming a segment about our OSF school garden project for their new TV series. Well done to the schoolchildren for showing presenter Anne and…
Thanks to Teresa from our Climate Cafe Community for sending us a photo of her newly dug Cara potatoes. How are yours growing?
Bramble Brae primary school garden is looking good for the pupils coming back on Tuesday. Thanks to the local families that helped with this over the holidays.
It’s always a pleasure spending time at the Cummings Park Community Flat and we got a nice tour of their garden, admiring lots of stuff growing well there. We gave away some of our allotment grown Charlottes, Red Dukes and Casablanca, as well as…
Our Red Duke of York was lifted as a first early last month. We got over 2kg from the seed potatoes but did have a bit of potato scab on the ones from our containers as you can see on the second photo. The…
We finally have a picture of our school garden project banner. One Seed Forward and the University of Aberdeen are “Cultivating Education” in local school gardens!
King Edward took part in our seed potato project this year and Audrey sent us some photos of them harvesting their tatties. They have decided to give them to Trinity Chruch, Banff who are going to make a tattie salad with them and share…
We have had a lot of fun with the pupils at Bramble Brae Primary School this year as part of our OSF School Garden Project. Yesterday they harvested peas, beetroot, lettuce, onions, kale and a lot of potatoes. In total they got 224 Maris…
Here is an update on our potatoes in containers, boxes, buckets and bags! It won’t be long until we start lifting our first earlies – stay tuned!
Here is an update on how our seed potatoes in bags and containers are doing. Planted five weeks ago, the first earlies are coming on well whilst the others are of course a bit slower. After taking these photos we covered all of the…