The seedlings have started to germinate:
The ‘make your own kitchen garden’ also worked well! Everybody got stuck in:
The AGM also went well with a new committee. See facebook for details.
We will also be running a stall on 1st April at central and be giving away free seeds. Please keep an eye on facebook for details.
Today we spent some time dismantling some palettes in order to build the planters.
Work went well, until we had pulled out loads of nails and screws:
We then started to build the planters for Edinburgh’s Edible Garden – planters up somewhere in Central that are temporary and can be used to attract attention to the allotments and the problem we are facing now. Work went well!
….Though we ran out of screws. Work will continue this weekend. It’s looking to be a pretty busy day this Sunday!
Today it was predominantly planting of seeds that was happening:
There have been quite a few seeds planted already. These include cabbage, broccoli, kale, cauliflower, kohl rabi and the onions:
Nothing has germinated yet, but it is still early days. I will continue to take photos so we can see the change in our seedlings!
If you haven’t already, if you are an Edinburgh student, please fill in this survey about community growing. https://edinburgh.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/commuity-growing This is to let the University know that we don’t want to lose our allotment, and that many people want to see the allotments moved to a new place once the new building is created. So the more people who fill in the survey the bigger our voice for moving the allotments to somewhere great!
Don’t forget that it is the AGM next week, and ‘Make your own kitchen garden’ day. Please come down and vote, and stand for a place if you would like. Everybody is welcome to stand and it is not formal – you don’t need to prepare a speech. Looking forward to seeing you soon! 🙂
We’ve just found out that our beautiful allotment at KB will be turned into a construction site and road in September.
This means that now we’re going to need to fight for new spaces that are accessible for students and the university community to grow food. We think there are exciting ideas and proposals to be made, and we want to make sure we have as much power as possible to make sure the University can’t ignore this growing community.
So, the first thing everyone can do is join the society! It’s totally free and will help us show that there are lots of students who want to see the allotments continue.
JOIN HERE: http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/society/allotment_permacult/
Allotment and Permaculture Society 