This Saturday we will be holding another grafting session in the pavillion at Seymour Grove allotments. This will be the third grating session we've run and this time, we're hoping to nuture some of the grafted trees and sell them at future plant sales to help with maintaining the orchard.
It doesn't take a lot of money to do this, but by regualrly mulching the trees with compost and/or manure they stay healthy and the organic matter costs! We sometimes need to buy replacement tools, if the ones we have get broken, or identify something new we need. The roofing felt on the shed has perished, so this needs replacing... that is the kind of thing we will use the money for.
We will post some pics later...
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Sunny day on The Big Dig
On Saturday 16th March Orchard 49 took part in The Big Dig. All over the country community gardens opened to volunteers to get busy growing food. In Manchester, the sun shone (on and off) and we had a great time.
Food and drink was on hand to keep everone's energy levels up and we spent the time pruning all the trees and weeding around the base of the fruit trees and then giving them all a lovely thick mulch of horse manure. Thanks to everyone who helped.
Here are some photos:
Food and drink was on hand to keep everone's energy levels up and we spent the time pruning all the trees and weeding around the base of the fruit trees and then giving them all a lovely thick mulch of horse manure. Thanks to everyone who helped.
Here are some photos:
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| Claire putting back the tree guard after mulching |
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| Damien weeding along the fence line of cordon trees |
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| We had some lovely bunting! |
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