Incredible Edible Ludlow

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🌱🌻🍅🥕🥦🍓🌞 The swap barrow is back! 🌱🌻🍅🥕🥦🍓🌞 You can find it towards the end of Castle View Terrace, in front of the Meadow. Today it has oregano, aloe, snowdrops, rosemary, sage, money plants, geraniums, spider plants, lemon balm and mint. All for swaps or donations :) The online seed list has been updated too and we have a pretty amazing selection of things to choose from. So have a look, let us know what you want, arrange to collect and and get sowing and growing this Easter! Click here for the list: https://bit.ly/ludlowseedswap

We have submitted our objection - will you add your voice to the call to save this ancient hedgerow? It's not only a habitat for wildlife but has some wonderful forage plants too - rowan, crab apples and elderflower. https://www.savethemeadow.co.uk/object20Shropshire Homes intend to clear the whole hedgerow of the meadow to create a slope to shore up their Fishmore development. Pictured is the stunning Hawthorn in blossom during last year's lock down. There appears to be no full aboricultual report that informs their plans. It all feels like an afterthought, or an inconvenience in their pursuit for capital gain. Please take time to object to their plans before the end of this weekend 21/00752/VAR on Shropshire Council's Planning Portal. More detail and direct link here: https://www.savethemeadow.co.uk/object20

5 more community fruit trees in the ground thanks to a generous donation from one of our plant swappers. They will help provide the community of Clee St Margaret with organic, local apples in years to come, and the village hall there is interested in planting more food-based plants on its land. Maybe your community would like to do something forward-looking like this? Do make contact with us at Incredible Edible Ludlow - here on Facebook or email [email protected] - and we'll see what we can do to help. Big thanks go to @Chris Evans for his donation; he also sells trees at reasonable rates so contact him if you want to dig in some last-minute incredible edible fruiters!

Thanks to peoples' kind donations and swaps, we've added even more veg and flower seeds to the Seed Swap now, including Dwarf Bean Borlotto Lingua de Fucco Nano and Giant Red Poppy. The list has been updated with all the new seeds, so have a look and get sowing! https://bit.ly/ludlowseedswapPhotos from Incredible Edible Ludlow's post

The snow has gone, Spring is on its way and it's time to get sowing those seeds. We've had some really great swaps so far and we're adding them to the list, as they come in, so keep checking for updates https://bit.ly/ludlowseedswap Big thanks to Stef Mills for donating some Achoca seeds - Mexican Cucumber, which is a mix between a Cucumber and a Pepper! Who knew? We've got lots of unusual varieties of all sorts of veg and flower seeds, so do have a look 🙂 If you can share this post, that would be fab! 👍 The swap is open to everyone and we can post seeds out, to those who live a bit further away. No seeds to swap? No problem. A suggested donation of 50p per packet instead, would be most welcome!

I think we're all itching to start sowing seeds, now that Spring is on it's way 👍 Are you looking for something different to grow, this year? The Heritage Seed Library have kindly given us some seeds for the swap - lots of really interesting varieties. We've updated our list, so click on the link, to see what's on offer 🙂 https://bit.ly/ludlowseedswap Please share, share, share this post and remember, seeds can be posted out to you, or collected from central Ludlow, just let us know when you order. No seeds to swap, no problem. Donations are welcome and we suggest 50p a packet. What a bargain!!