Glasgow Guerrilla Gardening

After a long weather imposed break, we’ll be making a start on work for 2012. Despite the lack of gardening activity we’ve made good progress towards getting constituted with sufficient volunteers having at last made themselves known to allow us to meet the legal requirments for constitution.

As ever we’re always on the look out for new volunteers to help with gardening, litter picking, maintaining the website or committee/fundraising work. So please get in touch if you feel you have something to offer.

Our first dig of 2012 will be on Saturday 4th Feb at Townhead in Glasgow. There has been considerable storm damage at the site with a few trees being lost so any help at all you can offer would be appreciated. We’ll be meeting at Townhead outside St Mungos Primary on the lane that connects Stirling Rd to Parson St at 11:30am and expect to be there for about two hours.

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We’ll be gardening up at Townhead on the following dates if you’d like to lend a hand, it would be much appreciated.

Saturday 15th October 12pm

Sunday 23rd October 12pm

Saturday 29th October 12pm.

We’ll be mostly planting bulbs, clearing up leaves and weeding. Each session should last roughly 2hours. All you need to bring are gloves and a trowel or small fork if you have one.

Hope to see you all there.

We’ll be holding our event for International Tulip Guerrilla Gardening Day on Sunday 9th October. We’ll be meeting at 12pm outside St Mungo’s Primary Townhead and would love to have you along. To take part just turn up on the day with a bag of bulbs (any kind), a trowel and plenty of energy.

Loads to do as we enjoy what’s left of the flowers and prepare for next spring so any help at all you can offer will be appreciated.

We’ll be meeting at Townhead outside St Mungos Primary on the lane that connects Stirling Rd to Parson St at the following dates and times

SUNDAY 11th September 1pm

SUNDAY 18th September 1pm

SATURDAY 24th September 11:30 am.

Hope to see you all there.

We’ll be meeting at Townhead on the following dates in August:

SATURDAY 6th August 11:30am

SUNDAY 14th August 1pm

SATURDAY 20th August 11:30am

SUNDAY 28th August 1pm.

We’ll be weeding, planting bulbs and picking litter and would appreciate any help you can offer. As ever we meet at our usual Townhead site outside St Mungos Primary on the lane that connects Strirling Rd and Parson St.

If you’ve a distance to travel and haven’t been before you can get any of the following buses to Stirling Rd which will drop you right at the site.  We’re just behind the bus stop.  If you’re not sure where you’re going just ask the driver to let you off at the last stop on Stirling Rd at the motorway.

First Bus- 12, 56, 56A, 15A, X1, X2, X3, X4, FX4, X5, FX5, X11, X15,  X37, X39, x85, x87

McKindless- X1, X2

Stagecoach- X19, x20, X25, x24

There are also a few buses that stop on Castle Rd at the Royal Infirmary. We’re just opposite the Royal Infirmary next to the motorway on the lane that connects Stirling Rd to Parson St in Townhead.

First – 38A, 38C, 42, 42A, 213, 11, 31, 36 89, 90

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The schedule for July is as follows

SATURDAY 8th July 11:30am -1pm

SUNDAY 17th July 1pm-2:30pm

SATURDAY 23rd July 11:30am- 2:30pm

SUNDAY 31st July 1pm-2:30pm

We’ve introduced Sundays in response to feedback about when people would like to come along so I hope to see some new faces along on Sundays. Some people have also indicated that they would be interested in coming along in the evenings during the week. I’m happy to accommodate this but need to get an idea of which evenings suit people best. If you’d be interested in working during the week, please let me know which days suit you best.

I found something mysterious at Townhead today. Someone had dug up one of the lovely foxgloves yet rather than nicking

it in the usual style of of our resident thief they left the dug out plant sat beside the hole they’d dug.  I’m presuming they were

caught in the act of nicking it, in which case I owe someone a pint -if that’s you make yourself known. Or they are planning to

return and nick it at a later date-a sort of two stage theft -if that’s you I’d rather you didn’t. One does wonder at the mentality

of our thief. What on earth gave them the idea they are so much more important than the rest of the community that they have

the right to steal flowers planted for the benefit of everyone? Still it can’t be easy going through life with such a repulsive, grasping,

mean spirited personality so I suppose they’re as deserving of pity as anything else.  If you’re the thief or the person who foiled

them, do make yourselves known. I’d love a chat.

We next meet up on Saturday 25th June at our Townhead site. There’s lots to do -weeding, sowing, litter removal and general tidying up so we’d love to have you along if you fancy helping out. We have lots in flower just now with plenty of bees and insects coming to see us, so the site is well worth a look.

We meet at 11:30am on the lane that connects Stirling Rd and Parson Street just outside St Mungos Primary School in Townhead.

You don’t need to bring anything though I’d recommend gloves as a minimum. If you have a trowel or fork these come in handy for planting and are worth bringing along. If you have any plants or seeds to spare feel free to bring them along but it isn’t essential.

A big thanks to everyone who helped out today and I hope to see you all next week.

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Just a reminder that we next meet on Saturday 18th June at 11:30am outside St Mungos Primary School Townhead at 11:30 am. If you’ve a distance to travel and haven’t been before you can get any of the following buses to Stirling Rd which will drop you right at the site.  We’re just behind the bus stop.  If you’re not sure where you’re going just ask the driver to let you off at the last stop on Stirling Rd at the motorway.

First Bus- 12, 56, 56A, 15A, X1, X2, X3, X4, FX4, X5, FX5, X11, X15,  X37, X39, x85, x87

McKindless- X1, X2

Stagecoach- X19, x20, X25, x24

There are also a few buses that stop on Castle Rd at the Royal Infirmary. We’re just opposite the Royal Infirmary next to the motorway on the lane that connects Stirling Rd to Parson St in Townhead.

First – 38A, 38C, 42, 42A, 213, 11, 31, 36 89, 90

Poached eggs are easy to grow and great for attracting aphid scoffing hoverflies to the garden.