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
Sun 17 Sep 2017
Project Groundwork – Sept 2017
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TOP hosted a Project Groundwork workshop: wildlife, garden & art workshop on 17th September.
artistic vistors to site
Combining a visit and exploration of the site, with producing artwork in response, and using materials from the garden.
Noriko showing how to turn artworks into a booklet
Fri 12 May 2017
Workday 7th 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
April 2017 Update
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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
Workday 15th October 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
Workday 21st August 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
Workday 3rd July 2016
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caterpillar on pear tree leaf
Mon 6 Jun 2016
Open Day & workday 5th June 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
AGM and workday 17th April 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
Workday 1st November 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