Preparing for Spring
Report by: Caroline Turner.
We have placed the order for the replacement posts to go around the raised beds and we hope to get them installed this Spring before we have to replant the beds for Summer. We have chosen to replace the wooden posts which are rotting, despite being treated with wood preservative each year, with recycled waste plastic posts in black. They are 100% weather resistant, maintenance free and have a life expectancy of 120 years! So will see us out! We selected black to match the existing street furniture and to set off our colourful seasonal planting schemes.
We’d like to thank the Fells & Solway Community Panel, the Co-op, the Town Council, Silloth-on-Solway Community Shop, Good Causes Charity Shop, The Cumberland Building Society and all those who bought plants from our stalls. All together they’ve helped us raise the nearly £10,000 needed to replace the posts.
Our Annual General Meeting (AGM) is on Wednesday 15th April at 10 o’clock in the Potting Shed on the Green. All are welcome! If you are interested in joining us please do come along we are a friendly, sociable bunch. No gardening experience is needed, all tools are supplied and we always enjoy a cuppa and a craic afterwards.
If you’d like to find out more about us you can follow our activities on Facebook and the Information Board in the Community Garden. Last but not least we’d like to thank Peter, the retiring editor of The Buzz, for his support over the years and wish him all the best for the future.
