The Lynnside Community Garden is now a member of Argyll & Bute 'Time for Change' Time Banks

Dear All

It's official – the Lynnside Community Garden is now a member of Argyll & Bute Time Banks!
This means that anyone who is signed up with the A&B Time Banks*) can obtain credit for time volunteered for this Community Garden.

Here's a photo of the certificate dated 22nd February 2010.

*) To sign up as a Time Bank volunteer, please contact Yvonne MacLean, Time Bank Co-ordinator, AVA – Argyll Voluntary Action, Office 1, Dunollie Halls, Dunollie Road, Oban, Argyll, PA34 5PH.
Phone: 01631 569 545  •  e-mail: oban.tfc AT tiscali.co.uk [copy this by hand into your outgoing e-mail, replacing " AT " by @]

Spring is in the air

Hello all
Spring is in the air. Our indefatigable gardener, Graham, has been hard at it, tidying up, raking off rotting branches and pulling up plants that didn't survive the hard frost of late December/early January. And he has built several raised beds which will hold leeks and onions and other lovely vegetables.

The weather changes from day to day, from hour to hour. A couple of days ago it was balmy and spring-like, the next day, frost had set in again and everything was covered with an ephemeral layer of ice-crystals. Beautiful, but a reminder that we shouldn't rush into things just yet: