26 August 2023 marked the welcome return of our annual horticultural show. Thanks to Rosa for organising a wonderful day, to everyone who helps with the organising and judging, and to Bailie Cllr Gerry McGarvey for awarding the prizes.
Here are the entries and winners in each category:
We are delighted to see the return of out Annual Horticultural Show. The day is open to everyone, whether you want to enter the competition, or just pop by for a visit.
More details can be found on the Show schedule. We hope to see you there.
Saturday 13th May saw our annual plant sale.
We welcomed almost 300 people through the gates, many visiting for the first time.
Our growing team have been busy for several months preparing for the day, and had a wonderful selection of vegetable, fruit and flowering plants for sale. Also on offer, were a variety of goods from our craft team and some home baking from members served with tea, coffee and soft drinks.
After a cloudy start, the sun came out and the temperatures rose.
Thanks to all of the garden volunteers who helped us to raise almost £1,500.
Don’t worry if you missed the sale. There are still lots of plants available to buy in polytunnel 1.
Our Growing Team have been busy through the spring and now you can see the fruits of their labours.
All sorts of fruit, vegetable and flower plants will be available.
All proceeds will help us to run the garden.
On Saturday 22 April 2023, we took part in Stirling Council’s Open Streets Day, which also marked EarthDay.org
We set up our stand in King Street, and provided compostable pots, compost and a variety of seeds.
Lots of children and adults planyed them up and took them away to nuture them.
We had tomato, sunflower, sweetcorn, peas and runner beans available.
The sunflower seeds were especially popular with children.
It also gave us a chance to talk about the garden and promote the upcoming plant sale on Saturday 13th May.
Braehead, Broomridge and District Community Development Trust (BBDCDT) have been a community anchor working with Stirling Council to reach people who have needed help with shopping, prescription collection etc during the Covid-19 restrictions.
Leading on from this was the decision to use all available raised beds at the Community Garden to grow fresh fruit and veg to share with garden members, volunteers and the wider community.
A much reduced but dedicated team of Braehead Community Garden members have prepared, planted and tended raised beds with fruit and vegetables to share.
Thursday 25th June saw the first harvest wheeled round to North Parish Church hall to be made available through the Heart of Braehead food project.
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