Hedgehog House

In St Brigids Garden we have made our own hedgehog house, you can see a photo of it over on our Instagram here.


If you would like to have one in your garden you can make them from things like old rabbit cages and pots, to just using things like logs and wood, or you can buy one too.

For information on looking after hedgehogs and encouraging them to your garden you can look at this article from BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/breathingplaces/hedgehog_home/

Plant Swap!

Want some free plants? Well there's a great way to get some! Recently some of the members of Blackwater Tidy Towns visited a wildflower talk at a garden centre in Wexford, and after the talk there was a plant swap, so you leave some plants and pick up some others for free!

We traded some of our herbs from St Brigids Garden for some tomato plants. Apparently there were even some cool plants available to swap, like "black tomatoes" and "mallow plants" (from which you can make marshmallow!).

We'd love to go another time!

Flashback Friday!

This week, look away now if you don't like bugs or snakes!!

We had a cool fun day were we were allowed see and touch lots of bugs and animals, and we were also told about them too. 


We're going to Dublin Zoo soon, we can't wait! We'll post all our best pictures on our Instagram, instagram.com/yttblackwater

Tips for leftover food!

Do you often have food leftover at home? There are some easy tips to stop this!

1. You should be careful what you buy, and only buy what you need. Don't just buy something because it is on sale!
2. You can freeze almost all leftover food and eat another day for dinner or lunch.
3. If you still have leftover food you should put it in a special compost bin.
4. If you have some leftover foods you can use them to make something else, like an omelet or even a nice dessert, like banana bread!
5. Did you know you can also use leftover foods to make beauty products? We found some easy ones to make on Irish website Her.ie, and one is even made from potato!

Look at the different masks here and let us know if you try any yourself! www.her.ie/beauty/so-simple-5-amazing-homemade-face-masks


For more tips on stopping food waste you can also visit:
www.stopfoodwaste.ie

Presentation of the Seeds

Remember when we told you about our wing-friendly gardens? Well a few weeks later Blackwater Tidy Towns visited the local primary school and gave out seeds to many children (not only YTT Blackwater members) to bring home and plant!


Our local councillor Oliver Walsh and Principal Mrs O'Brien as well as Blackwater Tidy Towns member Margaret Sinnott helped give out the seeds.

Flashback Friday!

If you follow our Instagram (we hope you all do!) www.instragram.com/yttblackwater you will see we have already started work on St Brigids garden this year. But did you know it's only a new garden? This weeks Flashback Friday will show you what it looked like before!

Our crafts!!

We've been posting our progress over on Instragram (instagram.com/yttblackwater) but we thought we would wait until you could see the finished product before we said anything here!

We painted some old tyres donated to us, with some old paint that was also donated to us!

We're going to put the finished items around the village to decorate, let us know if you spot any!