We are off to Waterperry Gardens on July 30th, for a day of gardens and lunch will be available too, ring Eileen if you want to come! 510095 The summer show is on Sat 6th August, always a lovely day, please try to enter something, the new Show Schedule and entry forms are in Blewbury… Continue reading »
Make Early Preparations for the VPA Show
The gardeners and “allotmenteers” are all praying for a decent drop of rain, I am fed up of watering my seedlings already, the water butt is empty, and the ground is dry and dusty! However, in the rest of my garden, there are trees, roses, shrubs or perennials’; I don’t have to water them at… Continue reading »
Sheepdog Round-Up for the VPA
After a few dark mutterings, I have removed the shrub that bit the dust during the winter, but just what shall I plant there instead? There is now a huge space just waiting to be filled with new planties, woo hoo! I am now greenhouse-less, but I now have a “sun deck”, with loungers, parasol,… Continue reading »
Blewbury Produce Stall News;
The Produce stall will open again for the summer on Saturday 7th May, at 10am at the Blewbury Garage on London Rd, so come along and buy plants, seedlings, fresh rhubarb and maybe even some cakes or eggs! Producers (the people who have things to sell) can pick up a form from the post office,… Continue reading »
Spring Time with the V.P.A.
It must be spring as I am to be found out in the garden without a coat and hat! My propagator has tomato & chilli sproutlings, and the runner bean seeds are beckoning me! I had a paper potter gadget for my birthday, so I will be making eco pots out of newspapers soon! Some… Continue reading »
Signs of Spring in the VPA
I apologise for not providing any input for January, bugs in my computer! Happily there are only a few bugs in my garden, the birds are seen hopping along the fence and picking out insects stupid enough to have hidden in between the slats! I have been slowly clearing the borders of scrappy died back… Continue reading »
Frosty Time with the VPA
My gardening has been reduced to chopping bits off the odd rose or shrub on a day when the temperature is above freezing, so not much in the compost bin then! I have purposely left all the old foliage etc in the borders for the little creatures to hide in, the birds have had almost… Continue reading »
News from the VPA
Many thanks to Bob Fitchett of the Upton Cider company for coming to talk to us about the trials and tribulations of cider making, it coincided very well with the Apple Day in October, and was a great way to slide into autumn! I do not like this time of year at all, the colours… Continue reading »
VPA September News
VPA news; I found the dreaded first fallen leaf of autumn on my lawn this morning, brown and crispy, surely this is not right? I am still picking beans and tomatoes? However, the weed & feed has worked wonders on those dratted dandelions in the lawn, and the borders are still flowering well, and the… Continue reading »
Latest VPA News
Well done to everyone who entered the Summer show, our largest ever! 55 competitors put together 385 exhibits between them, just phenomenal! As usual the standard was pretty high, particularly in the cookery, floral art, handicraft & photography sections, with just one or two points between the winner of the cup and second place! Fruit,… Continue reading »
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