BLEWBURY AND UPTON VILLAGE PRODUCE ASSOCIATION – Your Village Gardening Club
September began with a talk from Stuart Mabbutt on wildlife and wildlife gardening. It was very interesting to learn how to encourage insects, bees, butterflies and birds into our gardens.
Our next event is A PLANT AND HOMEMADE CAKE SALE on SATURDAY 10th OCTOBER AT TOAD HALL, STREAM ROAD, UPTON, OX11 9JD . Do come along a visit us and have a cup of tea in Maggie Maytham’s garden.
A copy of our questionnaire was put into the October Blewbury Bulletin, for everyone to complete, so we can find out what you would like from us. Please return it to Blewbury Post Office or send your answers to vpa.in.bl.up@gmail.com and you will be entered in the lucky draw to win a bottle of wine or chocolates. CLOSING DATE is the 28TH SEPTEMBER. Draw takes place at the A.G.M. on Wednesday 4th November.
Our Annual General Meeting is on Wednesday 4th November at 7.00pm in the Vale Room, Blewbury Village Hall. We will have our “Beetroot Bonanza”, which should have taken place at the Annual Show in July. The summer weather did not allow the 19 varieties of beetroot being grown to reach their required potential, so our display and special beetroot recipes was postponed until the AGM.
We will have special beetroot recipes you have never seen before, for tasting and sampling. Of course, we will have our usual AGM wine and nibbles.
Do come along and find out what our plans will be for the future, following an analysis of the questionnaires that have been returned.
Please pop the 4th November in your diary.
DID YOU KNOW? A snail can sleep for three years! There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings on the entire earth! Each year, insects eat one-third of the earth’s food crops!
Happy Gardening, Eileen.
Note – Apologies for the late posting of this item due to a technical problem. I have still posted it in case someone in the future would like to know what the VPA did in October 2015. Mike B.