Bay Horse Community Growing Project

Did somebody say just spring?!

Winter sun on th’plot..

I love working with other people doing plot jobs during winter. There’s no feeling quite like when seeing the results of combined labour. Here getting on top of bramble, covering plots for winter and extending compost facilities

The big bottle sterilise has commenced and the kit is ready.. Today is Apple Juicing Day!

c.40 litres this year 🙂

Bev’s been at work around the entrance..

Please note if you’re thinking of visiting our growing plot that we now have a gate which is locked when no one’s on site. This is unfortunately due to some anti social behaviour and theft that has been experienced recently. We’re still as always happy to accommodate any visitors- we don’t have fixed open hours but there is more often than not someone around in case you want to just chance it / see if we’re open. Otherwise one of us can meet you there by advance prior arrangement 😉

Our bee keepers have been busy collecting rent from our tenants (and in return we will feed them over winter 😉..

A few recent piccies from the plot..

It’s harvest time again 🙂 Not the best most productive year this time for some of the growing plots, but that has in part been because a particular elder tree has been doing so well, leaving the veg growing plots under and behind it in shade. Apples mostly not so good either this year. Not sure why. Frost might have caught some out. I’ll post a few recent piccies of the site and a few from last Sunday’s group fruit picking day. Though I’m not a cider drinker I read recently that cider has as many anti oxidants as red wine - so I’ve decided to give a fruit cider recipe a go this time, and currently have a micro brewery in my walk in closet..

June. Blooming lovely 🙂 ..

ls good to spend at least some of Earth Day working earth. And the weather is gorgeous 🌝
This is the last part of our community plot to be given some attention. We’ve done lots of tip runs removing tipped discarded items, and have used coppiced willow to form protective boundaries to hopefully prevent any more of same. We’ve been given some hedgerow saplings; hawthorn and hazel which will be laid to supplement previously planted dog rose and eventually replace the dead hedge car park boundary over time. Wild and bird cherry saplings are the main new features of our new mini shady woodland but we’ve still found room for a pond and some growing plots..
Hope you’re having a nice day too x 🙂