Winter Sun

Mike Barrowing Manure

 



Dug Over

Weekend digging by Chris and Lindsay

ready for Mondays delivery of manure

by Bollington farmer Alan Buxton

 



Walking through the Garden

The Crocodile (photo by Malcolm Bailey)



Autumn colour and the view of White Nancy

as enjoyed by 30 walkers

who passed through the garden

on the walk led by KRIV volunteer David Wood

as part of the Bollington Walking Festival 

 

 

 



Clay pipe fragment

The thorn like protrusions on the stem

are an unusual anti roll or firm grip feature

on this fragment found in the topsoil

 

 

 

It appears to be from a slip-cast porcelain pipe

Ready for Manure

New veg bed ready for manure



 



Pumpkin

 



Path Reinstatement

Most of the flags were taken up many years ago.  Many broken ones have been found buried in the garden and these are being used between preservative treated salvaged timber edgings.

 

Jonny tamping stone

 

 

The large stone near the wheelbarrow is at the centre of the path crossroads

 

 

courgettes, runner beans, leeks, golden beet, beet, parsnips

 

 

 



September Heatwave

Gareth preparing ground for next year

Sarah tending this years crops

in the picture are chard, pumpkins, parsnips, leeks and runner beans

 

New Veg Plot

 

Grass scythed, turf removed, dug to a spade depth

 

 

 

 

 



Wildflowers

Taming the Wilderness

 

Preparing new areas for next year

 

 



Honey

Paul Beardmore's bees have been at the garden over the summer 

http://www.happyvalleyhoney.co.uk/

Good Food

Presented by Nick



Turnips and Tatties

White turnips - probably the outstanding vegetable from the garden this year.
The 'tatties' are British Queen.

 

Wildflowers



Thistles and Insect Life

In the 'Wild' Part of the Garden



Haystack

The result of clearing by scythe & rake for cultivation



Planting Plan (part)

Fairly random planting this year as

areas became available

Green after Rain

Potatoes, Kale, Jerusalem Artichoke



Toad

Compost heap resident



Wildflowers



New Potatoes, Lettuce, Parsley

All from an Old Garden

Parsley



Lettuce

Strawberries and Tomatoes



The Great Escape

A mallard who laid her eggs in the uncultivated part of the garden

makes for the exit with her ducklings



Apples

The apple trees pruned by Chris

are in excellent health



Greens

Crops looking healthy after rain



Root and Stone Harvest

Two buckets of roots and two of stone

dug out while preparing the second raised bed

on the wettest Saturday of the year



The Second Raised Bed

Telegraph pole edges to the second raised

bed finished by Mike and Tom on Thursday

Path improvements by Raph, John and Tom on Friday

 

Artichokes, Potatoes, Celery, Cabbage, Peas, Turnips, Runner Beans

Amongst the crops in this progress photo



Grass too - we need to do some weedkilling on the garden paths

Growing Weather

In this hot weather the turnips are through

within a week of planting the seeds

And the runner beans are beginning their climb

 

The First Raised Bed Planted Up

Lindsay, Sarah, Bridget, Tom, Sue, Gill and John

Lots of good work done today in the walled garden

The bean canes are saplings from Rainow School

where Tom and John were amongst the KRIV countryside volunteers

carrying out woodland management tasks yesterday.

In the picture below are Gill, Rosie the Spaniel, and John



Nesting birds

Dunnocks or hedge sparrows had a nest in the Peach Case.  Chicks were seen in the nest yesterday evening but by this afternoon the nest was empty so we think the cat must have got them. 

Hypocaust

Hothouse flues and wall beneath later cold frames



Found whilst digging out topsoil for the raised bed pictured below:

The landmark on Kerridge hill in the middle distance is White Nancy.

Peach Cases Compared

The Ingersley Hall (Savio House) walled garden peach case

The Tatton Peach Case

The timber detailing in our Ingersley Hall walled garden structure appears finer than at Tatton.  Simon Tetlow Head Gardener at Tatton thought from the above photographs that ours might be quite old, possibly moved to or remade in its present position.  Based on the brickwork that ours leans against I had thought late Victorian, but it may have leant against something else previously.  Simon thought the lack of a lower opening vent in ours might suggest that in its present form our structure was not set up for growing peaches.  Thanks to Simon for letting us in at Tatton today, as the peach case there is not generally open to the public.