Growing Hub

We're back out on the road this week with some late summer and into-winter seeds at Fraserburgh Library. You'll find us there on Thursday 27th August 10.30 to 1pm and there's no need to book as you can just come along. We'd love to hear how your growing year has been going. This lovely late summer weather is a perfect time for harvesting but you could also be getting a few things in the ground for early spring and over-winter harvests.

At our drop-ins we've been handing out seeds for spring cabbage, kale, chard, perpetual spinach, rocket and radishes. These will ease the way into winter and you could even have something for the spring.

Fraserburgh is the last of our summer drop ins but we'll be back in the autumn with free onion sets so that your veg patch is not empty over the winter!

See you soon.

We've been out on the road with our Aberdeenshire Libraries drop-in sessions and it's been so inspiring hearing how you've all been getting on with your seeds and seed tatties.

The weather has certainly been a challenge this year and I'm afraid that my own crops have really struggled. It was hot and dry at the start of the season, then we had a cold snap, and we're now in a hot phase following a wet summer! The one thing you predict about Aberdeenshire weather is that it's unpredictable.

Well done to everyone who has managed to keep going in these conditions. If this was your first year of growing veg you deserve a huge pat on the back if you have harvested things because it has been very hard work for seasoned growers too!

One crop that does seem to have done well though are the tatties. I'm hearing…

We're getting ready to head back out on the road again - kicking off at Portlethen Library on Monday 27th July. We'll be there from 10.30 to 12.30 and we'd love to hear how you're doing with your veg growing. We'll be bringing our usual tips and guidance and we also hope to have some extra free seeds for summer sowing to grow into winter.

Looking forward to seeing you all again!

Well, we have certainly had a bit of a challenge this summer. On the plus side Plot 9 has hardly needed watering at all thanks to the daily rain. I'm looking out of my window every day and hoping that there will be enough sunshine to bring my sweetcorn on. This rain can feel a bit depressing at times and you're probably finding that everything is growing a lot slower than you expected. I know I am!

This weekend at the plot I was looking around and realised that I could allow myself a treat. If you planted those free seed tatties from Aberdeenshire libraries and One Seed Forward they are probably quite big now. This is the time of year I lift one or two of my first earlies and give myself the treat of delicious little new tatties. These just need a little scrub and can go straight…