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The vandalism gets a report from Glasgow's Evening Times:

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City thugs attack gardeners

by Deborah Anderson

GLASGOW allotments were vandalised and an elderly man threatened with a hammer just hours after CCTV covering the site was withdrawn.

Locals who use the Oatlands Leisure Gardens, on the South Side, want safety measures to be stepped up.

A new security fence has been installed… Continue

The Scottish Allotments and Gardens Society has picked up the story on vandalism at our allotment:

An Allotment that MUST be saved

The Oatlands Leisure Gardens have been in their current site, Elmfoot Street in the Gorbals Glasgow, since the late 1980s. Funding was received from the EU and Land and Environmental Services set up two school plots with disabled access, raised beds and a polytunnel. These two plots were allocated to Richmon… Continue

The students planted wheat today. The Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens sent us a free pack of wheat to grow, so today Louise got the students out to plant it. We'll keep you posted as to how it goes.

The Transitions course has just been given a spot at the Oatlands Allotments and Leisure Gardens here in Glasgow. For those of you outside the UK, allotments are community gardens. They are very hard to get - the average wait for an allotment space here in Glasgow is 8 years! But thanks to the hard work of our local Green Party city councillor,… Continue

I've put up a new video showing the potatoes being harvested, you can see it here: http://green-house.tv/profile/DonMacKeen. I've tried putting it up on the greenhouse video page but have had no luck.

-Or, even easier, see it below!