24 Aug 2020 Update

 Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you are all in good health, and that your flower and vegetable gardens have managed to survive the late summer weather?

Many thanks to those who managed to join us on our first zoom meeting on the 19th of August. If you've time, then I would appreciate feedback, positive or otherwise regarding how you feel about using zoom as a means of communicating?

These are my brief notes from our Gardening Group meeting:

The hall remains closed, though we await information from the Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) and our insurers that will allow us to safely re-open the place to the public sometime soon!

Our finances are healthy, and as a consequence of lock down etc, then there is no need to ask you all for an annual membership.

The only visit remaining on our summer calendar was to Panteg Llanddewi Velfrey on the 12th of September starting at 2pm. However, I will confirm if this can go ahead nearer the date, so that those who wish to attend can make arrangements.

As for possible winter gardening talks, we are aiming to hold them in the village hall, although this is dependent on the WAG instructions and our insurers, along with your individual requirements.

For example; We could zoom or podcast the gardening talks to those who wish to remain at home, and have a talk to a socially distancing audience at the hall? This all depends on a number of factors, most of which is developing day by day.

Talks so far include: Paul & Liz O'Neill Llwyngarreg "Plants we've Killed" - Piers Lunt Abergwili "Designing Hidden Gardens" - Trish Cormack "No Dig" - Caroline Whittaker Glyn Bach Llangolman "History of Medical Qualities of Monardas" - Jake Rayson Forest Garden Wales - "Introduction to Forest Gardening" (https://bit.ly/backyard-forest-playlist)

Other speakers who have yet to reply include, Joseph Atkin Aberglasney - Huw Richards Huw's Nursery....

The Virtual Gardening Show is seeing a number of entries (ok 6 is a number), so please submit your entries soon, after all it's only a bit fun, and not to be taken too seriously. Although the entries for the Art creation of a famous painting are looking very interesting, and I only wish I could share them all with you!

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Proposed gardening visits in 2021 include: Llwyngarreg - Glyn Bach - Panteg - Upton Castle - Stackpole Walled Garden - Aberglasney - Abergwili - Picton Castle - Colby Lodge - Nantyietau St Clears.

 Finally, below is the link to the BBC Gardeners Question Time.

Kind regards, 

Roy

Zoom Meeting 19th August 2020

 Llanteg Gardening Group is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Llanteg Gardening Group
Time: Aug 19, 2020 19:00 London

Contact Roy for details

Llanteg Virtual Gardening & Craft Show - 2020

 

Llanteg Gardening Group Virtual Flower/Vegetable/Craft Show

Please be aware you don't have to be resident in Llanteg to enter, or be a budding Monty

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Also, you don’t have to take a photograph of yourself with your entry, but photographs

must demonstrate that you are at your garden/property, and not for example in Outer

Mongolia, or at the RHS Chelsea…

For all entries, you should email a photograph of your entry and your details

to Roy.james1536@gmail.com by the 21st of September.

All virtual winners will be posted on the Llanteg Facebook page and website in late

September.

Virtual Rules

All entries will be judged by independent anonymous judges, their decision will be final.

Certificates for First, Second and Third places shall be awarded, there will be no entry fee

or prize money.

To enter just send an email to Roy.james1536@gmail.com and the entries should include

the following:-

 Your name (age for children).

 Picture of your produce or creation, and category.

 The first line of your address.

 You can submit six photos throughout the summer as your produce grows or your

creation progresses.

 Vegetables must be photographed next to a (Hens) egg (boiled or not, but not

scrambled or poached).

 Note if you don’t want your photograph on Facebook or Llanteg web site then

please say so.

Adult Entries

Vegetable categories - grown in the: garden, greenhouse, plot, allotment or windowsill

etc.

 Longest runner bean, photograph it against a tape measure.

 Largest vegetable, such as: pumpkin, onion, courgette, butternut squash….

 Five potatoes (of any variety) which have been grown by you.

 Four carrots, parsnips, onions, tomatoes, leeks, celery, peppers, beetroot.

 Two lettuces or swedes/turnips, celeriac, cabbages, cucumbers, courgettes….

 Wonkiest shaped vegetable, any variety.

Fruit categories - photograph of the tree or bush

 Apples or pears or rhubarb or berries or any other fruit.

Flower category

 An indoor flowering pot plant, grown by you

 Any flowers in your own garden.

Floral art category 

 Design a floral display, using real or artificial flowers, with one ‘prop’ of your

choice that reflects your feelings during lockdown.

Home baking category 

 Bake your favourite lockdown cake or cakes; with a recipe and a photograph.

Art - Craft category 

 Photograph something you have made during lockdown. It might be a painting,

carving, knitting, or something else, surprise us.

Photography category - art recreation 

 Using only what you have in your home or garden to recreate any famous

painting in photograph form. Don’t go as far as a Van Gogh self-portrait!! Then

send your photograph along with the name of the famous painting you are

recreating.

 

Children’s Entries

You've made it, show us, anything goes!

 Have you made something you are proud of? Send a photo of your amazing

‘lockdown’ item, including your name and age. 

Poems

 Write a poem about lockdown life.

Cooking 

 Make three decorated biscuits or cakes with a rainbow or bee, or flower design.

Take a photo of your creation.

Photography 

 Take a photograph of your pet or an animal found in your garden

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