South Lakes U3A - Monday Gardens Group

Meeting Details

Frequency	Monthly
Time	10.00 am
Day	Monday
Duration	2 hours
Location	Members' gardens
Coordinator	Yvonne Langhorne & Suzanne Graham

What we do

We meet on the first Monday of every month in a different member’s garden, swap advice, plants, seeds and produce. We have a mix of experienced and less experienced gardeners and it has been both interesting and inspiring. However, with 17 members this group is now over full.

Reports

November 2011

Our group has now been meeting since 2006 . This year we have had an outing to the herb garden at Acorn bank with the other 2 groups a talk by Elaine Horne as well as photos by 2 of our members on garden visits during the year.
Next year's meetings:

January: No meeting,
February: Seed and Plant swop and forward planning in the garden
March: To be arranged
April: Planting pots for summer

Jennifer Armitage

November 2010

We have had a very successful year, learming in April the proper way to sow seeds, in September how to take cutting and finally we learn about bulbs. Our 2011 programme is:

January 6th: Talk by David Redmore on garden design (joint meeting with the Thursday group).
February 7th: Meet at Nancy Gregory's House.
Date to be arranged: Visit with the Friday group to Snowdrop Day at Hornby Castle.
March 3rd: Plant swap with all three gardening groups.
March 7th: Making plant supports with Rebbecca Oakes.

Jennifer Armitage