Fruit trees

Thursday was a raw day but the midges were out still. Maintenance work started with replacing some of the rotting wooden edges on the raised beds. The currant bed was […]

The rain over the past week has helped plant growth and we didn’t get the hose out for a change. Everything is growing well including the weeds and all the […]

Another warm week and thankfully we had some rain but the watering needs to continue, especially for the soft fruit which was moved in the autumn and is still settling […]

There was no need for warm jackets on Thursday. The lack of rain is really showing now. Once you start planting, you can see how dry the soil is. The […]

Thursday was a day of April showers so some time needed to be spent sheltering from the rain.  Some useful weeding done, deadheading of the flowers now over and daffodils […]

On Thursday, the allotment thankfully had only a dusting of snow and the ground was not frozen so we carried on with the programme of preparing the onion bed with […]

Last autumn, the autumn raspberry Joan J succumbed to raspberry phytophthora and all the plants were removed. More bare-rooted plants were bought, this time the variety is Polka, and these […]

Winter maintenance jobs continue with a bonfire burning up the various prunings and dead wood – the wood ash is a good source of potash and will be spread around […]

It was a great pleasure on Thursday to see most of the grafts for the apple tree which has bad canker have taken so we now have a replacement growing […]

The Allotment team will once again be hosting a winter pruning workshop, led by George Anderson. The workshop will take place at the Caley Demonstration Allotment at the Bridgend Allotment […]