Glasgow Guerrilla Gardening

Townhead site.

Saturday morning 11:30 till 12:30.

Townhead site is at ‘B’, A is Queen Street, to give you a guide on where to go.

If you’d like to attend on either or any day can you please respond to this message or email  so that we have an idea of numbers.  If you haven’t attended before you’d be more than welcome on any of our Digs.

Thanks,

Taken from North Kelvin Meadow:

“Hi all

Your all invited to a bulb planting event at North Kelvin Meadow on
Sunday 11th October at 2pm. That’s a week this Sunday so mark it in
your dairies.

We’ve got 400 bulbs all ready to plant. If all goes well the Meadow
should be a wash with colour next spring / summer.

Things to bring?
Yourself! Bulbs should be handled with gloves so bring an old pair.
Bring a trowel or spade if you have one (we have a few spare). That
it.

How long will the event last?
Don’t worry about coming down for a long time  - 30 minutes to an 1
hour is all that’s required.

How to plant a bulb?
Each bulb needs to be planted to a depth of 3 times its size. So dig a
small hole and place the bulb with its top facing upwards. If not sure
what is the top then plant it on its side. Cover with soil making sure
there are no obvious air pockets. If you need some decent soil to
surround the bulb then take some from the big white bags in the far
corner. Its as easy as that! What’s more, many of them should flower
year after year.

Can’t make that time?
Feel free to plant bulbs at other times if you have them. The more the merrier!

What’s the latest with the Land?
Not really that much! The Council still want to sell it, but haven’t
found a buyer. The local community increasingly see it as a place that
shouldn’t be built on. As the land is used more as a green space by
the local community the case strengthens to keep it as such.

Hope to see you then”.

For more information, please visit http://northkelvinmeadow.com/

UPDATE: http://northkelvinmeadow.com/2009/08/21/court-case-21st-aug-09/

Karen Chung and Douglas Peacock, along with the ‘North Kelvinside Green Space Initiative’  have been summoned to appear at the Sheriff Court in Glasgow on 21/08/09 at 12 noon to defend an action that has been brought against them by Glasgow City Council. GCC wants to stop the raised beds, the bat boxes, the use of the renovated brick building and people working on the land at the Meadow.

http://northkelvinmeadow.com/2009/08/18/growing-vegetables-on-25-year-vacant-council-land-ends-up-in-court/

Also: http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2526360.0.Guerrilla_gardeners_in_court_to_defend_allotment.php

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/121592/Council-s-court-bid-to-kick-out-eco-volunteers/

http://www.thesun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/2597497/Glasgow-City-Council-takes-local-gardeners-to-court-over-land.html

http://www.twodoctors.org/2009/08/glasgow-city-council-loses-the.html

North Kelvin Meadow still need your help,  please visit their website for more information:

http://northkelvinmeadow.com

Some of you may have heard of The North Kelvin Meadow, some of you may even have helped out over at the site. Within the last week, North Kelvin Meadow have been informed that the land they are using may be about to be sold.

For more information, please visit: northkelvinmeadow.com. If you can help them, please lend your support.

Thank you,

Michael

Hello!

I thought I’d better put up some of the shots from last Saturdays clean-up at the Meadow, if nothing else, they give you an idea of the size of this tract of land.  The Meadow is a large expanse of spare ground, just off Queen Margaret Drive in Glasgow.  It used to be a pair of red shale football pitches, and I have to admit there was a mild pang of nostalgia involved for me, as I had played there about twenty years ago for a local Boys Club.  The old floodlight pylons still stand, rusting and broken.

That apart, it’s unrecognisable nowadays, with trees and grass covering the area.  Ideal, as it happens, to be transformed into a little piece of green space in the middle of the city.  More info can be found at the North Kelvinside Meadow website, keep an eye out over the coming weeks for the next stage in the process of turning the land into something pleasant and productive, Douglas and co will need all the help they can get. 

View from the outhouse, across the meadow.

Looking North, in the middle of the meadow

Looking west from the old tennis courts

Wooded area in what used to be tennis courts

Facing south to Clouston Street.