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As our harvest season gradually draws to an end (not quite there yet) we recognize the sterling work done by Fritz the Fox and his friends and relations to keep the rabbits in their place.

Despite the unseasonal, record breaking heat and humidity the produce at the garden is growing well (with a little help from the volunteers). At the moment tomatoes are ripening fast, the courgettes and cucumber seasonal is almost over and the pole beans are coming to end. meanwhile aubergines and peppers are about to start toContinue reading “Mind-August Progress”

The garden has now switched into harvest mode and things are swinging along. To date we have picked and delivered just shy of 600lbs of produce to West Island Mission, West Island Assistance Fund and On Rock food banks. At this stage there is a preponderance of courgettes supplemented by cucumbers, pole beans, purslane andContinue reading “Busy Delivery Schedule”

This morning Robert, Richard, Patricia and Françoise harvested 88 lbs of assorted zuchinni/courgettes, a token first pound bag of tomatoes and 6 full bags of purslane which is now on its way to the West Island Mission de l’Ouest de l’Île – we got to try out for the first time the amazing produce washingContinue reading “88lbs of Courgettes”

Recent rain and warm weather, aided by careful husbandry by the garden volunteers, is now really bearing fruit … as you can see from these photographs the squash/cucumber/courgettes patch is filling up with leaves and runners and flowers, peppers and aubergines and climbing beans are flowering and the tomatoes, aided by a modified growing technique,Continue reading “Now things are moving …”

This season is coming along well. We have a few courgettes already (early) and this weekend we noticed the first flowers on the young aubergines and pepper plants. The beans are starting to scramble up the poles and there are green tomatoes. The orchard was checked over and the apple trees that had been ring-barkedContinue reading “Promise of Produce”

After yesterday’s rain much of this morning’s gardening was devoted to group bonding and chatting alongside the basics of a bit of weeding and tomato side-shoot removal etc. This gave time to have a good look at the state of the orchard which is standing up very well. Back in the spring we had foundContinue reading “The Fritz Orchard”

26 May – we had a good morning doing general maintenance tasks at the garden today with eight volunteers weeding, planting more onions and mulching fruit trees while other worked at spreading wood chips on the access paths. The next two work parties (Saturday 29 May and Wednesday 2 June) will mostly be more ofContinue reading “Keep Saturday 5 June Free”