St Ninians Playground Project

St.Ninians Library on Saturday 15th June 2024
10am -12 noon

There's going to be a plant stall at the school fete. Any donations of plants would be very welcome 🥬🥦

Some top tips here for composting

🪱To celebrate International Compost Awareness Week - here's our simple guide to composting from compost expert Rod Weston 🪱

🌱 When composting you need roughly equal proportions of layered Greens and Browns.
🌱 Materials will decompose more quickly if cut into short lengths or shredded.
🌱 Long handled shears makes it easy to cut the material without getting backache.
🌱 Grass clippings are best mixed with Browns - for example mix in woodchip together with the grass.
🌱 Turn the material in the top layers of the bin monthly for the first few months to let in air and avoid compaction.
🌱 Alternatively knock the bin over and then refill it.
🌱 Or - a technique used by many composters - fill the bin and let it get on with it!
What are your top composting tips?

This looks good

🌱🌸 Join us for a blooming good time at the Braehead Community Garden Annual Plant Sale! 🌸🌱

Get ready to spruce up your garden with locally grown plants and seedlings. From vibrant vegetables to fragrant herbs, juicy fruits to beautiful flowers, we've got something for every green thumb!

📅 Date: Saturday, May 11th, 2024
🕙 Time: 10am - 2pm
📍 Location: Broom Road, Stirling, FK7 7GU

Admission is free, so bring your friends and family along! Plus, treat yourself to some delicious teas and cakes, all by donation. It's a perfect opportunity to support our community garden and get your garden ready for planting.

Don't miss out on this chance to add a touch of green to your life and support local growers. See you there! 🌿🍰

More damage to the polytunnel. If anyone notices damage being done, we would appreciate a call to 101. Many thanks.

This looks good. April 1st 11-12 and April 3rd 11-12.

Join us tomorrow morning, Monday April 1st from 11am - 12 noon for our free kids gardening workshop! Don’t worry if you can’t make it tomorrow we also have a session on Wednesday April 3rd from 11am - 12 noon.

School garden tidy-up - volunteers needed

Parents and carers are invited to help prepare the school garden for the new growing season.
Saturday 30th March 9.30-11.30 (no need to commit to the whole time).
If you're able to help let Mrs Allan know

Do you know that the school garden was built with climate change funding?

This coming week is
SCOTLAND’S CLIMATE WEEK
25 SEPTEMBER - 1 OCTOBER 2023
Scotland's Climate Week is an annual event that encourages individuals, communities and businesses to come together to show support for tackling the climate emergency. It's also a great opportunity to share success stories which can inspire others to take action.

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The buddleia plant in the school garden is attracting butterflies and bees

The blueberries in the garden taste amazing.

Amazing apples in the garden

Come and taste the redcurrants in the school garden

Pepper and tomato plants have been left in the seed swap shed in the school garden. Please help yourself if you'd like them.

A great way to help raise some funds for the playground at school. Spread the word!

Have you seen the new guttering and water butts attached to the polytunnel by one of our parents? Unfortunately it hardly rained for the first month or so after they were fitted, but they’re full now 😀.

Fruit and veg in the school garden are looking good

Donations for the fete would be much appreciated 🌱🌱

Donations can be dropped off the evening before the fête, on the morning or left in the seed swap shed (please let the school know so they can be brought in).
Thank you!

Please look after the carrots 🥕

Free seed packets from Dobbies 😀

In support of BBC Radio 2's Let It Grow, we’re giving away 75,000 packets of seeds 🌼 Collect your free packet in-store by 28th May ​

Find out more: https://fal.cn/3x3I0

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Some nice gardening-related Easter holiday activities

The children are on the home straight to the start of the school holidays, and we're excitedly counting down the days until we open our Little Sprouts Gardening Club! 🦋

Join our garden-patch gang next week, for 5-days of FREE green fingered FUN!

From 12pm – 4pm each day, join us near Boots for...

🍰 Monday 3rd April – Toad Stool Cupcakes
🐦 Tuesday 4th April – Mossy Bird Box Building
✂️ Wednesday 5th April – Apron Making Workshop
🐌 Thursday 6th April – Maca-Zooms Snail Macaroons
🥚 Friday 7th April – Egg Box Gardens

We had some fantastic little helpers yesterday - they looked for worms and put them in the compost bin

The first batch of St Ninians compost. Perfect for topping up one of the raised beds. Bet we grow good veggies in that bed. 🌱🥕🌽🥦

What a great afternoon we had. Amazing what a difference a group of people can make. We even had some keen litter pickers going around the whole playground.

An excellent afternoon's work in the school garden. It was great to have so many people helping.

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Do you know that when leeks start to grow they look like this?

Volunteers are needed for the School Garden Spring Clean on Saturday afternoon. The more the merrier and it would be lovely to get the garden looking lovely for the children to start using it after Easter. 🥕🥦🥬🧅

Scotland's Climate Week starts today

Plant pots and compost bags can be recycled at Dobbies

Our apple tree is looking good