Come and join us

Despite the cool and shower June weather we are busy on the orchard on Tuesdays.  This last week we had a musical accompaniment as the Foo Fighters were doing sound checks for their 2 gigs at the cricket ground.   

We finished mulching around the cordon trees along the long fence line and some strimming of the long grass has been done so walking through the orchard is a bit easier.  We also planted a new tree - a Damson Farleigh which has been grown on a new rootstock called VVA-1. This is a semi dwarfing rootstock that grows to approximately 2 -2.5 metres tall and is supposed to come into fruiting very early with large amounts of fruit.  It is suited to heavy soils (the orchard is quite heavy clay).  We will see how it fares, as the other damson we have (and the other plums) haven't been very productive at all.  

We had more visits from a Robin - it comes in search of worms and is quite fearless, coming really close to get them and check us out.

You can find us on the Orchard between 5 and 6.30 on Tuesdays - come and join us.