This weekend we will be starting to cut the grass next to the fence ready to plant our hedge. As usually there will be someone at the garden from about 1.30pm

Several of us spent much of Sunday continuing with the foundations and constructing the greenhouse frame – rather like playing with a meccano set. Three mice had nested in the boxes storing the greenhouse parts and had to be evicted

After our summer of work we  now have beds ready for next year. Just had an email from Sheet Allotments asking if we wish to join in there potato and onion order very soon  the delivery is anticpated early February+ whether we want to order anything from Kings seeds catalogue at 50% off in January Now is the time to get the best prices so who has contacts with alternative seed sellers?  What does everyone want to do?

Hi our hedging from the Woodland Trust has arrived. There are rabbit guards and canes with it. There is community promotional material – posters etc. that are very attractive. the plants are all in little pods. I think it would be sensible to consider having a planting plan of which plants we want where. There are rowans, wild rose, hazel ,elder and many more.Once the greenhouse is completed I suggest we set a date. Any thoughts?

Sue

Over the last few weekends we’ve been preparing the site for our greenhouse, purchased with a grant from South Downs National Park.

First, we had to level an area large enough for the greenhouse:

The greenhouse was delivered to site last Thursday. We did final preparations and started to assemble the frames at the weekend:

As a storm was forecast we didn’t take things any further, not wanting our half-completed greenhouse to be blown away.

Some of us carried on with the fruit bush planting, in time for them to get established before winter

Some of the squashes are getting riper