Muswell Hill and District Horticultural Society
M.H.D.H.S

 

PRESIDENT'S LETTER 2025

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Dear Members,

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Please have a good look through your new schedule and see just how many classes you can enter in the Society's three shows this year - the more the  merrier!

 

As I write in the freezing cold of this January the exhibiting of lovely flowers fruit and vegetables seems a long way off but to quote Barbara Winkler:

 

 Every gardener knows under the cloak of winter lies a miracle - a seed waiting to sprout, a bulb opening to light, a bud straining to unfurl.

And the anticipation nurtures our dream.

 

Despite the difficult growing conditions of deluge and drought, we had three very successful shows last year with many quality exhibits and lots of visitors let's do even better in 2025!

 

Slugs! I thought 2023 was bad enough but last year those slimy molluscs almost had the beating of me! I tried everything - pellets, coffee grounds, beer traps, scraps of old towel soaked in salt, little wool collars round each plant. but nothing seemed to stop the onslaught. After constantly re-sowing and replanting and going round with a torch each night and physically removing the blighters I managed to get most crops to harvest - but what a struggle! Speaking of which:

 

Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees

that half a proper gardener's work Is done upon his knees.

Rudyard Kipling (The Glory of the Garden)

 

Thanks to everyone for supporting the society and especially to all. those who put so many hours in to keep it running smoothly.

 

Here's to another successful year for MHDHS.

 

Best Wishes,

 

Gary