It was a bit of a different start to the day on the allotment yesterday.
I found myself crouching down over my cabbages with our Association Secretary, Diane, and having to hold that position for several minutes whilst a very industrious photographer snapped away at us from all angles.
For a while now, Diane and I have been talking about starting a 'Grow it Yourself' group that would provide advice and a place to go to for help with any aspect of gardening, whether it be allotment related or even what to grow on a small balcony of a high rise flat.
We had long felt that with the recent upsurge in interest in growing your own food many people had gone out and bought seeds and seedlings from the local Garden Centres, planted them out but then didn't know what to do with them, so their crops failed. We wanted people to be successful and to be able to complete the whole cycle from seed to plate.
We have managed to get a room at a local school and even persuaded local plot holder to do a short talk for us. All allotments in the area had been contacted and asked to support us by attending, but what we really needed was to get the general public involved.
Click here to see the Advertising Poster for GYO Group
I had a contact at the local free paper, so we sent her a press release and she was straight in touch the following morning, very enthusiastic, and wanting to send over a photographer to get pictures to make the story stand out in the paper.
So there we were, grinning inanely for the camera as we pointed at cabbages, leaned on forks and shovels and generally tried to look both industrious and intellectual at the same time. I hope it works and there is plenty of interest and attendance at the first meeting.
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