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Drumchapel Community Garden Workshop 2
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- Tour of Alderman Road Garden Centre
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- Brussel Sprouts
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- Sowing seeds
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- Sowing Tomatoes
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- Calendulas
The Drumchapel community garden workshops have been moving along successfully and have been well received by local residents who are keen to get involved in a project which intends to improve out door living space for the community.
On 11 February we visited the Coach House Trust’s community run garden centre on Aldermann Road. The Coach House Trust provides support, training and work opportunities for adults recovering from problems such as an addiction or mental health problems. Their garden centre provides a valuable resource for the local community, creating employment and also incorporates a market garden growing vegetables and fruit.
Expert gardeners Kate and Paula, who work for the trust, led workshops on basic gardening skills such as seed sowing and composting. We sowed a variety of seeds such as tomatoes, dwarf beans, basil, chives, marigolds and calendula, which are now happily growing away in the CCA office awaiting warmer weather when they will be planted outside on the community garden site at Drumchapel. We eventually hope that Drumchapel community garden will provide training and work for local people akin to Aldermann Road. This visit was therefore very insightful.
