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Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
Jane Ransom1/2/04 5:06
We are in the process of bringing our local 'Horticultural Society' into the twenty first century and are looking for ideas for activities that might attract the younger inhabitants of our village. Without being rude, please, does anyone have any brilliant brain waves that might help us out? How to make a worter feecha. Hanging baskets, propagation of plants. How to make a garden private, user friendly and low maintenance (and then please, come back and tell us all about it!) but you get my drift. ;-) Grow (some) of your own food - gardens/seedbeds for children of the younger inhabitants. I would guess/suggest that a lot of people don't 'take' to gardening until their middle age, so don't despair! -- Sacha (remove the weeds to email me) |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
In article , Sacha
writes Without being rude, please, does anyone have any brilliant brain waves that might help us out? How to make a worter feecha. Hanging baskets, propagation of plants. How to make a garden private, user friendly and low maintenance (and then please, come back and tell us all about it!) but you get my drift. ;-) Grow (some) of your own food - gardens/seedbeds for children of the younger inhabitants. Thanks, Sacha, but we have regular 'speakers' and the topics you mention crop up regularly! Plus we have two outings a year. We were thinking along the lines of an interactive quiz or games or something - if anyone has any ideas. I would guess/suggest that a lot of people don't 'take' to gardening until their middle age, so don't despair! I think the average age of our group is about 80 . . . . and most of the female gender :(((((((((((( -- Jane Ransom in Lancaster. I won't respond to private emails that are on topic for urg but if you need to email me for any other reason, put ransoms at jandg dot demon dot co dot uk where you see |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
"Jane wrote in message ... We are in the process of bringing our local 'Horticultural Society' into the twenty first century and are looking for ideas for activities that might attract the younger inhabitants of our village. Without being rude, please, does anyone have any brilliant brain waves that might help us out? Said it before but how about a Marrow or better still Pumpkin growing competition, give out the seeds yourself so they all start with the same, and make a date in, say, September for the grand weigh in (local Pub might well like to get involved in that!) Your local school might like to get involved too. Make prizes for different age groups. Do make sure you have good scales though which you probably will have to hire, you may get some pumpkins of 400lbs or more. A "How to grow" sheet would also be a good idea for those who have no idea, and once they are hooked you have them for the rest of their lives. :-) -- Regards Bob Use a useful Screen Saver... http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ and find intelligent life amongst the stars 368 data units completed. |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 20:04:26 +0000, Jane Ransom
wrote: I would guess/suggest that a lot of people don't 'take' to gardening until their middle age, so don't despair! I think the average age of our group is about 80 . . . . and most of the female gender :(((((((((((( How about a weekend in Amsterdam? It seems full of unattached men for some reason. -- Martin |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 20:53:58 -0000, "Bob Hobden"
wrote: "Jane wrote in message ... We are in the process of bringing our local 'Horticultural Society' into the twenty first century and are looking for ideas for activities that might attract the younger inhabitants of our village. Without being rude, please, does anyone have any brilliant brain waves that might help us out? Said it before but how about a Marrow or better still Pumpkin growing competition, give out the seeds yourself so they all start with the same, and make a date in, say, September for the grand weigh in (local Pub might well like to get involved in that!) Followed by a traditional pumpkin seed spitting contest. -- Martin |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
"Jane Ransom" wrote in message ... We are in the process of bringing our local 'Horticultural Society' into the twenty first century and are looking for ideas for activities that might attract the younger inhabitants of our village. You say the 'younger' inhabitants? How young? I was in our Garden Centre today and noticed a stand of 'Children's Garden Tools', why not start or emphasise more the 'Younger' ones and even start a section for them and invite Mum or Dad to join in as well? If the majority only have a small garden do planned evenings/weekends on 'The Handkerchief Garden' and hold a competition. Add Social Evenings into your calendar with 'Bangers and Mash' Evenings, these evenings can be fund raising events for your Society so ask them to bring a prize for a Raffle. Not Horticultural or Gardening themed, but we hold these fund raising evenings and think nothing of making £200.00 or more and have a good evening. "Take over" (with permission of the Council or whoever own them) any small public gardens or flower beds and get people who don't normally have an interest in gardening, to 'help' you to make a display of these beds. (Not my idea, I got roped into doing the beds around the War Memorial and the 'Horse Trough' Flower bed) Hold a Village in Bloom contest. The people who are going to take part register now and the Judging is ........... you decide now so they have something to go for. A Cup and a Certificate to keep AND, you will find your local garden centre/nurseries will donate tokens as prizes, tie all of this up with your local council, they 'might' pay for advertising and/or leaflets to be printed/ distributed. If you want to get the whole village involved there has to be something which will appeal to ALL, like a "100 Club" with £500.00 worth of prizes over the year 'run by the Horticultural Society'. (Just about to launch the same thing here as a start to a £500,000.00 Fund Raising scheme for the local 'Open Space/Sports Field'. BTW you have to be registered with your local council and this will cost you £35.00 and you need the leaflet about the Lotteries and Amusements Act 1976) More ideas? Have a 'Brain Storming' session where every idea is thrown into the pot, no matter how daft. 'Something' could be made of even the most stupid idea. Mike |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
"Jane Ransom" wrote in message ... We are in the process of bringing our local 'Horticultural Society' into the twenty first century and are looking for ideas for activities that might attract the younger inhabitants of our village. You say the 'younger' inhabitants? How young? I was in our Garden Centre today and noticed a stand of 'Children's Garden Tools', why not start or emphasise more the 'Younger' ones and even start a section for them and invite Mum or Dad to join in as well? If the majority only have a small garden do planned evenings/weekends on 'The Handkerchief Garden' and hold a competition. Add Social Evenings into your calendar with 'Bangers and Mash' Evenings, these evenings can be fund raising events for your Society so ask them to bring a prize for a Raffle. Not Horticultural or Gardening themed, but we hold these fund raising evenings and think nothing of making £200.00 or more and have a good evening. "Take over" (with permission of the Council or whoever own them) any small public gardens or flower beds and get people who don't normally have an interest in gardening, to 'help' you to make a display of these beds. (Not my idea, I got roped into doing the beds around the War Memorial and the 'Horse Trough' Flower bed) Hold a Village in Bloom contest. The people who are going to take part register now and the Judging is ........... you decide now so they have something to go for. A Cup and a Certificate to keep AND, you will find your local garden centre/nurseries will donate tokens as prizes, tie all of this up with your local council, they 'might' pay for advertising and/or leaflets to be printed/ distributed. If you want to get the whole village involved there has to be something which will appeal to ALL, like a "100 Club" with £500.00 worth of prizes over the year 'run by the Horticultural Society'. (Just about to launch the same thing here as a start to a £500,000.00 Fund Raising scheme for the local 'Open Space/Sports Field'. BTW you have to be registered with your local council and this will cost you £35.00 and you need the leaflet about the Lotteries and Amusements Act 1976) More ideas? Have a 'Brain Storming' session where every idea is thrown into the pot, no matter how daft. 'Something' could be made of even the most stupid idea. Mike |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
In article , Sacha
writes Jane Ransom1/2/04 5:06 n.co.uk We are in the process of bringing our local 'Horticultural Society' into the twenty first century and are looking for ideas for activities that might attract the younger inhabitants of our village. Without being rude, please, does anyone have any brilliant brain waves that might help us out? How to make a worter feecha. Hanging baskets, propagation of plants. How to make a garden private, user friendly and low maintenance (and then please, come back and tell us all about it!) but you get my drift. ;-) Grow (some) of your own food - gardens/seedbeds for children of the younger inhabitants. I would guess/suggest that a lot of people don't 'take' to gardening until their middle age, so don't despair! Tap into the current fashions for everything 'new age' - so feng shui, herbal remedies from the garden. -- Kay Easton Edward's earthworm page: http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
In article , Sacha
writes Jane Ransom1/2/04 5:06 n.co.uk We are in the process of bringing our local 'Horticultural Society' into the twenty first century and are looking for ideas for activities that might attract the younger inhabitants of our village. Without being rude, please, does anyone have any brilliant brain waves that might help us out? How to make a worter feecha. Hanging baskets, propagation of plants. How to make a garden private, user friendly and low maintenance (and then please, come back and tell us all about it!) but you get my drift. ;-) Grow (some) of your own food - gardens/seedbeds for children of the younger inhabitants. I would guess/suggest that a lot of people don't 'take' to gardening until their middle age, so don't despair! Tap into the current fashions for everything 'new age' - so feng shui, herbal remedies from the garden. -- Kay Easton Edward's earthworm page: http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
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from Jane Ransom contains these words: In article , Sacha writes Without being rude, please, does anyone have any brilliant brain waves that might help us out? I would guess/suggest that a lot of people don't 'take' to gardening until their middle age, so don't despair! I was only 22 when I got hooked. I think the average age of our group is about 80 . . . . and most of the female gender :(((((((((((( Our Gardening Club started much the same way a year ago, against much head-shaking and teeth-sucking by the more fogeyish Horticultural Society members (who are now completely won over and enthusiastic attenders; in fact to hear some of them talk you'd think it was their very own idea in the first place). Membership immediately expanded beyond all expectations, (equal males and females) 40 or 50 turn up to a monthly meeting including a slowly growing number of younger people (30-ish). . It has also started a lending library of donated garden books, which might draw in more newbie gardeners as word gets around. Last week's meeting was a showing of an official 90 minute video somebody had bought at the Eden Project, covering Tim Smit's inspiration and the construction/preparation phase.. fascinating and very well received by all ages. We're having a second one about the planting of Eden, at a later meeting. The initial meeting included a raffle of garden-related spare stuff donated by founding members, anything from produce, to plants, seeds, pots etc. It was so popular we now do it every month; very easy fundraiser :-) HTH Janet |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
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from Jane Ransom contains these words: In article , Sacha writes Without being rude, please, does anyone have any brilliant brain waves that might help us out? I would guess/suggest that a lot of people don't 'take' to gardening until their middle age, so don't despair! I was only 22 when I got hooked. I think the average age of our group is about 80 . . . . and most of the female gender :(((((((((((( Our Gardening Club started much the same way a year ago, against much head-shaking and teeth-sucking by the more fogeyish Horticultural Society members (who are now completely won over and enthusiastic attenders; in fact to hear some of them talk you'd think it was their very own idea in the first place). Membership immediately expanded beyond all expectations, (equal males and females) 40 or 50 turn up to a monthly meeting including a slowly growing number of younger people (30-ish). . It has also started a lending library of donated garden books, which might draw in more newbie gardeners as word gets around. Last week's meeting was a showing of an official 90 minute video somebody had bought at the Eden Project, covering Tim Smit's inspiration and the construction/preparation phase.. fascinating and very well received by all ages. We're having a second one about the planting of Eden, at a later meeting. The initial meeting included a raffle of garden-related spare stuff donated by founding members, anything from produce, to plants, seeds, pots etc. It was so popular we now do it every month; very easy fundraiser :-) HTH Janet |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
Xref: kermit uk.rec.gardening:185689
Why not contact a seed company to see if you could get free or reduced price seed so you could give every child a free packet of seed. A sponsored Sunflower growing competition. and if you can supply every entrant with say 3 plants for an entry fee of 50p, so that they all have the same variety to start with.......... -- David Hill Abacus nurseries www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
Xref: kermit uk.rec.gardening:185689
Why not contact a seed company to see if you could get free or reduced price seed so you could give every child a free packet of seed. A sponsored Sunflower growing competition. and if you can supply every entrant with say 3 plants for an entry fee of 50p, so that they all have the same variety to start with.......... -- David Hill Abacus nurseries www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk |
Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
"Jane Ransom" wrote in message ... We are in the process of bringing our local 'Horticultural Society' into the twenty first century and are looking for ideas for activities that might attract the younger inhabitants of our village. Without being rude, please, does anyone have any brilliant brain waves that might help us out? -- Jane Ransom in Lancaster. I won't respond to private emails that are on topic for urg but if you need to email me for any other reason, put ransoms at jandg dot demon dot co dot uk where you see You say the 'younger' inhabitants? How young? I was in our Garden Centre today and noticed a stand of 'Children's Garden Tools', why not start or emphasise more the 'Younger' ones and even start a section for them and invite Mum or Dad to join in as well? If the majority only have a small garden do planned evenings/weekends on 'The Handkerchief Garden' and hold a competition. Add Social Evenings into your calendar with 'Bangers and Mash' Evenings, these evenings can be fund raising events for your Society so ask them to bring a prize for a Raffle. Not Horticultural or Gardening themed, but we hold these fund raising evenings and think nothing of making £200.00 or more and have a good evening. "Take over" (with permission of the Council or whoever own them) any small public gardens or flower beds and get people who don't normally have an interest in gardening, to 'help' you to make a display of these beds. (Not my idea, I got roped into doing the beds around the War Memorial and the 'Horse Trough' Flower bed) Hold a Village in Bloom contest. The people who are going to take part register now and the Judging is ........... you decide now so they have something to go for. A Cup and a Certificate to keep AND, you will find your local garden centre/nurseries will donate tokens as prizes, tie all of this up with your local council, they 'might' pay for advertising and/or leaflets to be printed/ distributed. If you want to get the whole village involved there has to be something which will appeal to ALL, like a "100 Club" with £500.00 worth of prizes over the year 'run by the Horticultural Society'. (Just about to launch the same thing here as a start to a £500,000.00 Fund Raising scheme for the local 'Open Space/Sports Field'. BTW you have to be registered with your local council and this will cost you £35.00 and you need the leaflet about the Lotteries and Amusements Act 1976) More ideas? Have a 'Brain Storming' session where every idea is thrown into the pot, no matter how daft. 'Something' could be made of even the most stupid idea. Mike |
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