Dry landscape gardening and the Picudo Rojo,  June 12that 2.30pm

 The next meeting is at Canadas del Romero Old School Hall, and starts at 2.30pm.

PLease note the revised date of this meeting.

We have 2 speakers who have been gardening on untended urbanization areas for many years and are keen to pass on all the tips they have about the best plants to use for dry areas and answer any questions you may have which will help those of you who are trying to manage gardens without irrigation systems.

 

We have spent quite a lot of time this last month researching the picudo rojo problem, including a morning with the researchers from Alicante University who are carrying out the trials in Cartagena at the moment. There is quite a lot of information we gleaned which hasn't yet been written up and posted, including the information given to us by the Cartagena town hall parks dept about their experiences with the pest and tips on how to deal with it. We'll talk to you about the information gathered and run through the points raised and answer your queries about the ongoing problems with picudo rojo, as well as any other gardening queries you may have.

 

There will be a demonstration table as normal showing different propagation techniques, so if you have a quantity of any material to contribute, please bring it along and we can chop it up and share it out amongst us.

 

The swaps table will be in operation as normal, with a put something on, take something off policy, so we can swap fruit, seeds, cuttings, magazines and any unwanted surpluses you have. Please don't be shy about bringing along surplus oranges, lemons and nisperos, they are always gratefully hoovered up by other members.

 

As normal, your entry subs go into the raffle, which has lots of excellent plants up for grabs- last meeting we had over 30 really good plants as prizes, and also into providing you with tea, cakes and biscuits.

 

If anyone would like to do a little demonstration of propagation techniques of any surplus material you have in your gardens, please let us know as it saves running around the day before trying to find something we can propagate!

 

Entry as normal, 2 euros for those with membership cards and 3 euros for those without.

 

Please respond if you're likely to come so we have a rough idea how many refreshments to buy. 

 

We look forward to seeing you all on the 12th June, and can't wait to see what ‘s coming in this month for the swaps table as we're trying to fill up a new bed at the moment, best regards, Laurence and Zoe.

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