{"id":4121,"date":"2026-05-13T13:03:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/?p=4121"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:32:12","slug":"veg-garden-plant-sale-a-great-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/2026\/05\/13\/veg-garden-plant-sale-a-great-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Veg Garden Plant Sale Proved a Growing Success"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"558\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2026\/05\/veg_blog_cropped_final-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2026\/05\/veg_blog_cropped_final-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2026\/05\/veg_blog_cropped_final-1-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2026\/05\/veg_blog_cropped_final-1-1024x476.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2026\/05\/veg_blog_cropped_final-1-768x357.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The University\u2019s first annual Veg Garden Plant sale, held at the <strong>Grounds Veg Garden on Streatham Campus<\/strong>, was a great success, welcoming staff, students and local residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visitors enjoyed a wide range of heirloom and heritage vegetables, alongside herbs, flowers and some more unusual perennial varieties. Our campus honey was also available and proved especially popular on the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#7c7452\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-4129\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2026\/05\/IMG_2384-scaled.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2026\/05\/IMG_2384-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2026\/05\/IMG_2384-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2026\/05\/IMG_2384-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2026\/05\/IMG_2384-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2026\/05\/IMG_2384-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2026\/05\/IMG_2384-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the forecast of much-needed rain, turnout was excellent, with visitors leaving with cratefuls of plants and honey. The free tomatoes for the first twenty customers were quickly snapped up, adding to the excitement of the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2026\/05\/IMG_2420-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2026\/05\/IMG_2420-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2026\/05\/IMG_2420-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2026\/05\/IMG_2420-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2026\/05\/IMG_2420-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2026\/05\/IMG_2420-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> Any remaining plants have since been taken to the Forum Shop or are being grown on by the Grounds Team as part of a friendly competition to grow the biggest tomato.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2026\/05\/strawberry_beds_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2026\/05\/strawberry_beds_cropped.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2026\/05\/strawberry_beds_cropped-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2026\/05\/strawberry_beds_cropped-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2026\/05\/strawberry_beds_cropped-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A big thank you goes to the Grounds Team for their hard work in organising and delivering such a successful and well-attended event!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University\u2019s first annual Veg Garden Plant sale, held at the Grounds Veg Garden on Streatham Campus, was a great success, welcoming staff, students and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3077,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - 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