Glasgow Allotment Forum will be holding their 5th GAF POTATO DAY on Sunday 28th February, 11am-3pm at The Reidvale Neighbourhood Centre 13 Whitevale St, Dennistoun Glasgow, G31 1QW
All are welcome, so please spread the word to friends, family, schools, work-mates and fellow gardeners. Once again we will be joined by Glasgow Food Network who will be running a seed-swap table. There will be workshops and a café (!)
This year we have over 50 varieties of seed potato, the majority of which are Scottish grown –a draft list is on the GAF web site now, but please remember it is not definitive yet. You will find old favourites as well as new additions and can again buy from as little as 1 tuber to larger amounts, although the day is more about variety than quantity. There will be onion sets, shallot sets and garlic as well as fertiliser and potato planter bags. Please support our ‘Tattie Bash’ and grow a potato for charity. For the princely sum of £2 you will be given a pot + 1 seed potato tuber and asked to go away and grow your potato, returning in August to one of our ‘weigh-ins’ to see who can grow the heftiest crop of tatties with all proceeds going to the charity WaterAid; from a land of plenty water we’ll be helping people in parts of the world with little access to any water, let alone anything like the clean, safe drinking water we enjoy. http://www.wateraid.org
Please bring a bag for yourself but also any spare carrier bags for re-use. We will have re-usable cotton bags for sale. Gardening Magazines swap: we will have a point for swapping gardening magazines, so if you have any back issues you’d like to give away, please bring them along.
We also hope to have a recipe board going on so please bring your favourite potato recipe and pin it on the board (we’ll also have pens and paper to hand).