REPORT IN LIEU OF A FORMAL AGM MEETING which was due to take place on 21 April 2020
CIRCULATED TO ALL GDVPA MEMBERS
Continue reading “Your AGM Newsletter”VPA Young Gardeners: Project No. 4
A Bean or Sweet Pea Tepee
This is really a project for all the family. Build a tepee for climbing plants, and when the tepee is completely covered you can put a rug or blanket on the floor inside it and you will have your own space!
Continue reading “VPA Young Gardeners: Project No. 4”VPA Young Gardeners: Project No. 3
Miniature Garden
Make a miniature garden for faires or dinosaurs! These miniature gardens are really fun to make and you can use absolutely anything you want.
Continue reading “VPA Young Gardeners: Project No. 3”VPA Young Gardeners: Project No. 2
Plant Markers
Identifying plants in the garden is often difficult as many of them look alike with similar leaves or flowers. Having colourful plant markers is a good way to help and it might stop us eating a plant that we should not be eating or it might help us avoid digging up something we want to keep.
Continue reading “VPA Young Gardeners: Project No. 2”New VPA Young Gardeners Page Launched
Welcome to VPA Young Gardeners!
It is springtime, and this is one of the most magical times of the year for gardeners. The VPA would like to share some of this magic with all the children and families in the village and the surrounding area. Our new VPA Young Gardeners page has been designed to give you some ideas of how to enjoy your garden even more.
Continue reading “New VPA Young Gardeners Page Launched”Membership Renewal reminder
VPA Membership Newsletter
Hello to all our members, we hope that everyone is staying safe and keeping well.
As with numerous other gatherings, our AGM can no longer take place so we will keep in touch with periodic news items. Please encourage your family, friends and neighbours to sign up to our circulation and be VPA connected and indeed members.
Continue reading “Membership Renewal reminder”Coronavirus
An update on how the coronavirus outbreak is affecting the VPA, including some practical suggestions for children stuck at home:
VPA Store
We have reluctantly decided, for the safety and well-being of our customers and volunteers, that our Garden Store should not be open for a while during this unprecedented time.
However, we shall try and get goods to anyone at home self isolating and wanting to do their garden. We have a range of garden essentials and bird feed on offer at competitive prices:
Continue reading “Coronavirus”New Greener Gaddesden Page on Website
Little Gaddesden Parish Council are keen to try to reduce our village’s carbon footprint, including the use of plastic etc. The VPA are ahead of the game – for once! – and we have had a gardening sustainability policy for some time. It influences our store purchasing and our future programme of workshops, so we thought it was time to publish on our website some practical hints and tips that are the heart of our policy. We’ve put it all on the new Greener Gaddesden page, which is now live. You can find it in the menu on any page under About, or you can click here to go straight to it:
I hope you’ll have the chance to have a look, and more importantly that you find some useful pointers in what we’ve said.
Alison Townsend
Winter Show Deadline Approaching!
The deadline for entering the VPA Winter Show 2020 is coming up fast. Don’t forget that entries have to be in by:
Wednesday 5 February 2020, 8:00pm
There are three ways you can enter the show:
- Fill in a paper copy of the entry form that’s in the middle of your printed show programme (or as downloaded and printed from the Show Entry Form Download section on the Winter Show 2020 page on our website) and deliver it, with your entry fee, by the deadline to
- Janet Stinton, 5 Ringshall, Little Gaddesden or
- June Abraham, Peel House, Church Road, Little Gaddesden
- Email a scan or legible photo of a filled in paper copy of the entry form to the VPA Show Team at VPA-show@LGVPA.org. Please pay the entry fee on the day of the show.
- Submit your entry online directly from this page, using the Online Entry Form on the Winter Show 2020 page on our website. Again, please pay the entry fee on the day of the show.
The show itself will be on Saturday 8 February 2020 at 2:30pm, with the deadline for staging exhibits being 11:00am on the day.
We’re hoping for a good crop of entries to make a great show. Keep them coming in!
June Abraham
for the VPA Committee and Winter Show Team
Help needed please!
Hi All
Just wanted to let you know that with a full list of events again in 2020 we are keen to find additional help to boost our friendly Committee. You don’t need to be gardeners or arboriculturalists, just enthusiastic and enjoy supporting the events that the VPA put on.
The areas we need help are:-
1. In the shop on an occasional Sunday morning, 10-12am, please speak to Lin Underwood, 07974 074483
2. Distribution of the Show programmes ahead of the shows in February and August, please speak to Alastair Greene, 01442 843667, we have a few roads without a distributor at the moment.
3. General support for the events, please speak to June Abraham, 07760 144057
4. Stasia who looks after our facebook and Instagram accounts is always on the look out for photos that members have taken of their own garden plants and veg/fruit etc and would be happy to receive them on email on stasia_tereszczuk@hotmail.com
Many thanks in anticipation, look forward to seeing you at the Winter Show on 8th Feb
