From the Caerlaverock Community Allotments: Thank you to everyone who supported our stall at the Barbour Hall table top sale last week. Your generosity was greatly appreciated. Our weekly stall of fresh allotment produce is back open again [.....]
There is a half plot available at the Caerlaverock Community Allotments beside the Barbour Hall in Glencaple. It is open for anybody living in Caerlaverock or has strong ties to it. These plots don't come up too often, [.....]
Many thanks to Alison Robertson who has let us know about the free seed box! It is located at the back of the Barbour Hall next to the tall orange gas bottle. They are mostly veg & herb [.....]
Do you fancy growing your own tatties, sprouts, parsnips and carrots for the Christmas table? Turnips or pumpkins for Halloween? Maybe growing strawberries, currants and all manner of summer fruits? Or trying your hand at home grown salad [.....]
Following our meeting yesterday (16th October 2021) a few highlights to keep you posted! Allotment Produce Stall A productive, profitable project! Deemed a great success, thank you to everyone who contributed in one way or another! The stall [.....]
Many thanks to Sue Greig who shared this mouth watering photo - everything is home grown! The Allotment Produce Stall is open during growing season from Sunday at 1pm to Monday at 1pm if you'd like some of [.....]
A huge thank you to everyone who contributed and came along to the opening day of our Allotment Produce Stall! It was a great success! If you didn't make it along this afternoon, there is still some lovely, [.....]
Fruit and veg is beginning to burgeon forth on the allotment plots! As everything comes all at once, there is sometimes an abundance beyond what the average freezer can cope with! So, to minimise waste, and hopefully help [.....]
…is chock full of delicious, tried and tested recipes contributed by cooks from our local community. See the Broad Bean & Runner Bean Risotto pictured above from Karl & Rosa Savege. Looks yummy. A little gift for a [.....]
The steel stepladders (that used to be used to retrieve footballs that went over the fence at Norfolk Park) are going to be cut up and taken away - unless you would like them. (Condition as seen in [.....]
Another deliciious dish, cooked from the Caerlaverock Allotment Cookbook by Sue Greig (and undoubtedly enjoyed by Rob)! "Pasta with Runner Beans & Black Pepper or (as they say in Italy) Casio e Pepe with runner beans! This is [.....]
After a pretty wet winter on the allotments, Richard arrived with his tractor and plough last week to plough the two new plots. Exciting times! Two of the original plots had proven to be too wet to work [.....]
UPDATE! Sue has made the Paneer Curry recipe - doesn't it look totally mouthwatering? Yum! If you're sitting there thinking that you haven't finished your Christmas present buying yet - or maybe you haven't even started - may [.....]
Now that they've been given the go-ahead as a permanent allotment site (following a successful trial period), there is a half plot vacant for a new allotmenteer/s/family to join in! The trial period has been a resounding success, [.....]
Here are a few great photos documenting the drainage operations on the allotment site on Friday afternoon, with thanks to Alison Robertson (who sent them on Friday, the delay is all ours!). They discovered a blocked pipe beside [.....]
Sue Greig is looking for contributions for a brand new fabulous fundraising Cookbook! (Her original cookbook can be viewed >>here<<) Sue explains more below: Some of you may remember that many years ago I put together a Caerlaverock [.....]
With thanks to two green fingered Caerlaverockans who have let us know about this interesting research - gardeners and allotmenteers may have some ideal candidates for this research! "Got any blotches on your beetroot, squiggles on your spinach [.....]
Great photos of the first silage cut around the Community Allotments! 🌞🥕🌱🌾🌻🌻🌾🌱🥕🌞🌞🥕🌱🌾🌻🌻🌾🌱🥕🌞🌞🥕🌱🌾🌻🌻🌾🌱🥕🌞🌞🥕🌱🌾🌻🌻🌾🌱🥕🌞🌞🥕🌱🌾🌻 Thanks again to Farmer John Jamieson for his permission to trial the plots, to everyone for keeping the allotments neat and tidy and to wee Anony [.....]
