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!

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!

Here are some "Flashback Friday" photos from activities we have done in the past year. When we're not busy on the internet we also get outside and work hard!! ;)


Here are photos from a nature walk we did around the local area!

Strawberry Pavlova Recipe

Kevin Dundon is a famous chef from our very own Wexford! We think his recipe for Strawberry Pavlova will be delicious and we can't wait for the strawberries in our garden to start growing again this year!

You can check out the recipe (plus many others) on The Taste.ie here: thetaste.ie/wp/strawberry-pavlova-recipe-by-chef-kevin-dundon/



What's your favourite way to eat strawberries?

Easy Garden Craft DIY Videos

Just in time for the long Bank Holiday weekend, we found some videos on YouTube with craft ideas for your garden.

We searched hard and we only want to share with you easy things you can do at home, as some of the videos are really hard or they need a lot of different things to make them.

We hope you have fun making them!













If you make something please share it with us in the comments below!

Annual Spring Clean 2017

We would like to thank everyone for joining us for our spring clean this year on April 1st. Despite the rain we all had a great time (no joke!) and the village looked much tidier after we finished.

It was great to involve the community and have many people join us to help improve our village and keep it clean!

We especially cleaned around the recycling bins in the village. It's good that people recycle but also when the bins are full some people still drop their bags off and it can leave a mess. Also not everyone uses the bins for recycling and that's why we need to keep it clean!

We were very busy working but we took some photos that we will try upload here, and also on our Instagram page too.

Instagram!

Check out our new Instagram page for photos of our village and the work we're getting up to!

https://www.instagram.com/yttblackwater

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

St. Patrick's Day Recycled Crafts

As it's St. Patrick's Day today I thought I would show you some cool ideas I found on the internet to celebrate the day. This craft you can make using reycled items. It's really simple to make, all you need is a toilet roll tube, orange string, black and green paper. You can find this awesome craft on Pinterest.





Here is another idea I thought was pretty cool. All you need paper plates, paint and scissors. Again this is another craft that is easy to make. It's really quick and easy to make. This also can be found on Pinterest.



Hope you have fun making these crafts.
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