Thursday was a chilly and bright day, but we still needed to keep moving to stay warm, so the main job today was spreading the manure round the fruit trees and bushes, and we had another bonfire. [...]
Last day of the month and a brilliantly sunny one but it was bitterly cold. We paid a short visit to check all was well and the netting still doing what is should in keeping the pigeons off the [...]
Wednesday was a bitterly cold night and the frost was on the grass as we arrived at the allotment on Thursday morning, but the sun was shining, and it was good to be out and working. The [...]
Please see the picture below for details of the upcoming Winter Fruit Pruning Workshop. The pruning workshops always prove to be very popular, so booking is advised to guarantee your place. [...]
Last Thursday was dull day for the last work day of the year on the Caley allotment. The energetic ones started work on digging up a section of grass path to allow the widest raised bed to be [...]
Thursday on the Allotment was very chilly and dull. Unfortunately, the promised sun didn’t appear. We worked again on repair of raised beds, finished cutting back the willow, checked all [...]
Another wet day on the allotment but we went out to check all was well after the strong winds earlier in the week and it was, so a retreat for a coffee in the Bridgend cafe seemed a good idea. [...]
A miserable day, dull and pretty moist, but we all arrived and carried on regardless. The ground was too wet to do any work so, as most of the leaves had fallen from the willow and hazel, the [...]
Another mild and sunny day on the plot with interesting clouds, the geese flying over and more trains than usual. Our time on the plot is much shorter and more relaxed now. More weeding was done, [...]
Another day on hands and knees doing weeding on the woodchip paths, amongst the strawberries and the coppiced hazels. Some of the paths now have such a deep layer of rotted woodchip it [...]
