Miss Swallow collected a trailer load of supplies to help with seed sowing and for making bean wigwams.
She couldn't resist a couple of pepper plants at the same time! One sweet, one chilli - they are doing well inside the poly-tunnel.
Our volunteer Liz assembled two raised growing troughs
They will be good for anyone in a wheelchair to be able to reach and plant up.
The big news this week is that we started work on a new patio area. Here, wooden edging is being laid down at a width of ten slabs.
We laid sand (with a little helper to tread it down)...
After tamping down the sand with a long length of timber, we laid the first row.
Back-breaking work but we made good progress.
More slabs were delivered...
...more sand...
...and timbers too.
Euan helped to get it perfect...
...and we are very pleased with the finished product!
Meanwhile Michael helped with the hebe hedge and watered the plants in...
...and seeds are germinating in the poly-tunnel
Sweet peas show their heads above the soil.
We have had a pleasant 15 to 20 degrees outside this week...
and generally ten degrees warmer inside the poly-tunnel! :)
Salad crops, onions and herbs are coming on nicely. The ASDAN group continued to pot on bedding plants ready for hanging baskets...
...and the EAGer bunch (Jakob, Joy, Kiera) planted out broad bean plants...
...whilst Jessica sowed seeds into a raised bed.
Meanwhile Jakob, Darren, Lewis and Dougal returned to help sow seeds into trays
We will bring these on in the poly-tunnel before planting them outside in several weeks time.
The broad beans were watered in. Also this week, Mark helped paint boards for information signs to go on, and Liam came out to check and weed his plants.
We also sold some cut herbs to staff and cropped our first radishes - tasty!
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