Lorn Garden Club Flower Festival at Ardmaddy Castle Garden

Dear all

Lorn Garden Club had booked a fabulous day for their Flower Festival at Ardmaddy Garden. Here are a few visual impressions:

Some of the veggies on offer at our table: carrots, beetroot; French beans, runner beans, broad beans; radishes, green peppers, small green chilly peppers; followed by a colourful nosegay with sweet peas, spearmint, real marigolds, cornflowers and red clover:

Our informative posters attracted quite a lot of attention. We "recycled" them from the Oban Charities' Day in June.

More veg: fir apple potatoes, onions, zucchini with blossoms, kale and sugar-snap peas; the highlight is provided by a few nasturtium blossom.

The weather was simply perfect: warm, sunny, with just the faintest of breezes. This is nearly the end of the day, when the landlord of Ardmaddy Castle, Mr Charles Struthers, called out the winning numbers of the raffle.

The veggies are growing in our Organic Garden

An update from our gardener, Graham Scott:

"Purple broccolli showing new heads, also kale; tatties starting to show, onions and garlic doing well; Jerusalem artichokes showing.

Sourced logs from Glencruitten for [shiitake] mushrooms.

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Mini greenhouse set up soon for tomatoes, pumpkins, melons.

Plant out soon: nasturtiums, sweet peas, re-pot sunflowers.

Herb garden doing well: Mecanopsis (himalayan blue poppy) about to bloom as is Astilbe; rhubarb de-flowered to promote growth.

Planted sweet corn, put in supports for peas.

Taken up planting containers in No.8 Miller Rd. patio, helped by neighbouring child; sown carrots in troughs; will soon plant half tub with beans and nasturtiums. Vertical plastic pipes along wire fence will be planted with strawberries.

As the ongoing environmental (food imports) situation unfolds, the need for locally grown food is again underlined.