Fri 10 Nov 2017
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Another year passes, and as the cool autumn gives way to winter, there’s clearing at the patch to be done, and what better way to do it than with a warming sociable bonfire.
tops bonfire Nov 2017
Fri 12 May 2017
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Beetroot, parsnip and fennel bed
Harriet and Fizz clearing up weeds
Brendan and the children looking for a toad
Found it!
Gary and Marcos having a natter while picking purple sprouting broccoli
Purple sprouting broccoli
Mateo and Esther looking at their slug collection
Mateo and Clara – more slug inspection
Gary and cabbage
Harriet…
More cabbage shenanigans
Marcos and Mateo rolling up netting
Nicely cleared path!
Aquilegia
Sun 30 Apr 2017
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Speckled Wood on three-cornered leek
Peach tree is doing very well in the greenhouse
Looking forward to the peach harvest!
Sour cherry tree blossom
Bee on nettle
…and plenty of snails too
Pond plants
Robin in shrub
Rhubarb nestled in straw
Apple blossoms
Sun 16 Oct 2016
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beautiful nasturtium had temporarily taken overBrendan, Marcos and Ian were weeding the overgrown strawberry plot
cabbage seedlings
apple harvest
cabbage bed - well netted against pigeon attack
Wed 24 Aug 2016
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tomato harvestpumpkins are growing nicely...
unfortunately we had to clear most of the tomatoes from the polytunnel, as tomato blight had taken over
mystery plum...from a previously undetected plum-type tree
the newly weeded leek and parsnip bed
Mon 4 Jul 2016
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caterpillar on pear tree leaf
Mon 6 Jun 2016
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Visitors on our open day
plant sale
Brendan shows a young visitor how to boil water in a a stormkettle
Mark showing a family around Tops
Brendan, Lil and Esther
Mon 18 Apr 2016
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Activities after lunch and a successful AGM
Fizz ‘cleaning’ the pond
Little Clara is giving Ken a hand with the weeds in the polytunnel
Luminous rhubarb
Ruth weeding near the pond
Mon 9 Nov 2015
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beautiful autumn foliage
Bramley apples
Harriet found some blackcurrant cuttings
autumn canopy
sweet potatoes under cover
tea break
spindle berry
Tue 24 Mar 2015
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bunting for ‘Big Dig Day’…
Gary covering beds in front of greenhouse with sheep’s wool
Mateo is helping Fizz with the weeding…
wee Mateo sitting in the herb bed
hedgehog house…
…and hedgehog feeding station, made by Ken and Ruth
Jan watering the bed before it gets covered by manure and sheep’s wool
blossoming hawthorn
Bob and Florence
Hattie and Lizzie are building a den…
peach blossoms
