Upton Village

JUNE NEWS – BLEWBURY & UPTON VILLAGE PRODUCE ASSOCIATION I hope everyone is keeping up with the weeding – they seem to be growing even faster this year! 1st August – We are holding our annual show at Blewbury School (2.30pm – 4.00pm). Please pick up a Show Schedule and enter any of the sections… Continue reading »

Not good weather at Easter but at least it’s improving, to give us the opportunity to start planting. For those of you with access to the Web – information has been received from DEFRA regarding another bug!! It’s called the Allium Leaf Miner and attacks onions, leaks and garlic. Evidence is feeding punctures on leaves… Continue reading »

No – Karen has not disappeared! We have had a change of jobs on the Committee and I volunteered to keep everyone up to date with news about the Association. What luck – a week of magnificent weather, giving us the opportunity to clear the rubbish left by winter and plan for the coming months.… Continue reading »

Once again, venturing out into the garden is brief and disheartening, the snow has bashed down some of my shrubs, and the seed heads I have purposely left for the birds are disintegrating into brown untidy muddles, my wellies have sprung leaks, and even the dog doesn’t want to go out, I am hoping for… Continue reading »

At times during this winter, it has seemed as though spring is a long way off, but hiding in a border under the lilac are my “Blewbury Tart” snowdrops, the hyacinths are popping up, and the hazel tree is looking like its about to pop its tassels all over the place! I noticed the snowdrops… Continue reading »

Congratulations to all the competitors in the summer show in July at Upton, there were a magnificent turnout of entries, albeit some very late ones which made our organising go a bit awry, but it all worked out ok in the end! My roses had turned up their toes for the weekend but rallied for… Continue reading »

The first talk of the season went very well, with Dr Bret Rowland talking to us about how to “dig” properly – plus the rest, standing, twisting (or not), bending. It is amazing how we get through the day. Start to train early, and we shouldn’t have problems. I hope…

For those of you who missed the talk on composting from the “expert from the council”, we have some leaflets and information.

The VPA Autumn Show is in the Methodist Hall on Saturday afternoon, 9th September; anyone can show.

VPA stands for Village Produce Association – thought to have been set up during the Second World War to encourage people to grow fruit and veg and share it around.