BLEWBURY AND UPTON VILLAGE PRODUCE ASSOCIATION (Your Village Gardening Club)
Our visit to the Harris Garden at Reading University, in June was amazing – a 12 acre garden in the middle of Reading. Ann our guide gave a perfect tour and we concluded the visit with a lovely lunch at The Griffin in Caversham. Those of you who didn’t come missed a really good outing!!
CALLING ALL EXHIBITORS
Don’t forget our next big event is the ANNUAL SHOW on SATURDAY 11TH JULY.
HAVE YOU GOT YOUR COPY OF THE SHOW SCHEDULE SO YOU CAN DECIDE WHAT TO ENTER??
It’s available at Blewbury Post Office or via our e-mail vpa.in.bl.up@gmail.com We do need Blewbury and Upton villagers to support this traditional event to make it a worthwhile activity.
The planned ‘Beetroot Bonanza’ for the Show is going well. The 19 varieties of beetroot are surviving despite the wind, rain and hail that has attacked them. Let’s have some June sunshine to help them grow!! Provided they grow big enough between now and the 11th July, there will be recipes and tastings for all the visitors to the Show. If you didn’t like beetroot when you arrived – I’m sure you will by the time you leave.
August is our month off – but there will be a short questionnaire in the next Blewbury Bulletin and Upton News which we would like everyone to complete. You can either send you reply by e-mail or pop it into Blewbury Post Office. So keep an eye out in the September issue.
Date for your diary: Wednesday 2nd September 7.30pm in the Vale Room, Blewbury. We have an expert coming to give a talk about Wildlife and Wildlife Gardening.
DID YOU KNOW? The SUNFLOWER is a native plant of the Americas, where the Indians used its seeds as an important source of food. The Incas of Peru were sun worshippers and used it in religious ceremonies. The sunflower leans towards the sun in a process known as heliotropism.
DID YOU ALSO KNOW? Sunflower stems were once used to fill lifejackets before the invention of synthetic materials.
Happy Gardening
Eileen