Pretty as a Picture

Just a few pics from Saturday.  We don't often see grasshoppers at this time of year but this one was enjoying the mild, if drizzly at times, weather.

Also a couple of nasturtium shots with the morning's dew still on the leaves.

Autumn Harvest 2016

A big THANK YOU to all visitors who came to our Harvest Event on Saturday afternoon.
We thought we were going to have a dry & sunny day at one point, but then we should have known there'd be a rain shower or two, there usually is when we have an event.  No fear though, we have tents, gazebos, a polytunnel & other places to shelter so nothing stops us enjoying ourselves.  We hope all our visitors had a good time and don't forget, if you fancy joining in with our allotment group you can come along any Weds or Sat, 10-12.  Just ring the bell on the gate or drop us an email to enquiries@diginstapleford.org.uk
Here are a few pics from the event.

Flowers

More Flowers

Bee

Hearts

Apple pressing

Apple pancakes - yum!

Pumpkin Carving

Jar decorating

Willow craft

Harvest Event 2016

Autumn work

When's the quiet time of year? Not now for sure! We're busy clearing away the summer veg and planting overwintering lettuces, chard, and chicory, sowing seeds of black radish, green mustard, etc., and harvesting potatoes!

Saturday's Produce

Just a couple of pics of the produce that we picked at DigIn on Saturday.

Basil, apples, green tomatoes, vine cuttings, sweetcorn

Pond-dip, Bug Hunt and Cook & Eat

Take a tray of just-picked veg... a lot of friendly volunteers and a lot of enthusiastic children... some pond-dipping, a newt and some bug-hunting, and there you have a lovely meal!
(NB We didn't eat the newt!)

Sunday catch up

Everything is growing so quickly at the moment, we have lots of French beans (haricot verts as our French volunteer would have it) and runner beans.  It seems as soon as we've finished picking some there are more ready, not that we're complaining, there's nothing quite like picking veg & then cooking & eating it soon after, so fresh and virtually zero food miles!

We've had a good crop of onions too.

The pumpkins, after a slow start, have really caught up.  We were hoping to time it right so that we'd have pumpkins for carving at our Harvest Day coming up on Sat 22nd October, but a couple of them look ready now with 7 weeks to go!


The (ahem, award winning) vine cuttings that we took in January are looking very healthy.  They've been nurtured in the polytunnel and have put on a lot of growth.  Check out the picture taken in May and one taken today to see the difference!