All 110 planters are up on the lamp-posts again this year but what can we say. All component parts arrived in order, including all the plants, again in fantastic condition. This year we have used entirely organic, peat-free growing media given our environmental concerns. Hopefully it will provide plenty of nutrients for the plants to excel. That said, from the date that they were put up, the weather has been nothing but very challenging, extremely hot, dry and at times very windy, the worst possible conditions to experience when the young plants were getting established. Had it not been for the constant attention and continuous watering they have received they would not have survived. Though their growth was initially stunted they have since blossomed only now to be somewhat damaged by the buffeting winds. However, whilst the elements are out of our control we will continue to attend to them until their season concludes. Hopefully they will be much appreciated by many of our community meantime.

 

Incredible Edible Marshland undertakes this annual project for the benefit of the whole  Marshland community. If it were not for the effort and time put in by a few volunteers and the financial support it receives, the project would prove impossible.

 

IEM wholeheartedly thanks, Glynis Murray, Amanda and David Scrimgeour, Nigel Drummond, Richard Eastwood and his lads, and Amy Lake for all their effort and for selflessly giving their time to again make the project a success.

 

As mentioned above it would be impossible without substantial financial backing. IEM is particularly grateful for the support received from The Goole Wind Farm Community Fund by way of a grant and an award received from Reedness Parish Council. 

 

Furthermore, IEM offered a new ‘Adopt a Planter’ scheme this year. We are very grateful to the following for their contributions to this scheme -

 

To :

• The Rudd family, Whitgift, for their sponsorship

• Helen Bryett - in memory of Simon Moffat

• Joan Drayton - in memory of Mick

• Bridget Bramley - in memory of Bruce

• Glynis Murray - in memory of James Markham

• Margaret Gunson - in memory of Joan Gunson

• Diane Oxley - in memory of Alf and Jess Fawkes

• and to those who anonymously offered their sponsorship

 

Whether or not IEM will be able to continue providing planters in future years will continue to depend on financial support going forward together with considerations regarding climatic conditions which are forecast to become more extreme over coming years and most importantly the individual support received from our community volunteers.