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maggiemackay
Dec 11, 20181 min read
Blue sky day!
Unexpectedly lovely weather today for the routine tasks of weeding, potting on and digging over a vegetable bed. Special thanks to to...
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maggiemackay
Dec 5, 20181 min read
Leeks and leaves.
Welcome to Carolyn. There were a large number of us joining together for our tea break yesterday. The usual tasks - weeding, clearing...
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maggiemackay
Nov 21, 20181 min read
Thinking back .......
Tucked up at home today snug and warm. Remembering Anthony digging out a yucca yesterday, in the cold and wet, but still a good...
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maggiemackay
Nov 19, 20181 min read
Yesterday .......
A glorious day as sunshine reached us for most of the afternoon. It's times like that when you realise, as a volunteer, how lucky you...
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maggiemackay
Nov 13, 20181 min read
Summer gone ......
Today some of us have emptied our polytunnel of the last of our tomatoes which Jean is to turn into chutney for sale at our events. Some...
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maggiemackay
Nov 1, 20181 min read
Two RHS Awards
Yesterday, in Southport the RHS Britain in Bloom, It's Your Neighbourhood Awards took place and we were so pleased to have our Chair,...
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maggiemackay
Oct 29, 20181 min read
One way to keep warm.
Yesterday was time to deal with a large delivery of wood chips. They were moved to a space where they can be stored undisturbed for a...
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maggiemackay
Sep 30, 20181 min read
Colder today but glorious toms ..
A cold wind for us today amidst lots of weeding. A cheering lunch inside the large greenhouse aided by our own tomatoes. Black Russian...
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maggiemackay
Sep 26, 20181 min read
Apple Day soon ...
Given the weather this year we will not have as many apples to sell as in the past. However, it will still give the chance to buy some...
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maggiemackay
Sep 4, 20181 min read
Still harvesting
People have been picking crab apples today.
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maggiemackay
Aug 28, 20181 min read
Red, red apples
Plenty of work done to help prepare for our Autumn Fair on the afternoon of Saturday, 15th September. Here are Due Red Melba Apples...
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maggiemackay
Aug 27, 20181 min read
Another hard day at Parrs Wood ...
Yesterday we again picked blackberries, fallen apples, tomatoes from the poly tunnel and checked how ready the damsons are - not quite...
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maggiemackay
Aug 21, 20181 min read
Blue sky reunions.
Weeding of the plots below. Collecting plums, blackberries and fallen apples. Lots of tomatoes from our polytunnel to share. Damsons...
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maggiemackay
Aug 12, 20181 min read
Taking a break for lunch.
A great deal of garden waste packed up in these bags ready to become useful. In the background we had our lunch which included our own...
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maggiemackay
Aug 5, 20181 min read
Polytunnel so hot!
Here is Geoff in the polytunnel watering our tomatoes. We shared some at lunch - Black Russian have been first ripening but other...
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maggiemackay
Aug 4, 20181 min read
Meeting in Didsbury
Starting August with a meeting at the Parsonage of Didsbury's various Britain in Bloom volunteers and Royal Horticultural Society Judges.
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maggiemackay
Aug 3, 20180 min read
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maggiemackay
Jul 4, 20181 min read
A group of new friends came yesterday to garden here and we hope that they felt welcome and enjoyed
As for the rest of us, some folk picked blackberries which Jean will make jam from to sell at events here. Some weeded away but the...
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maggiemackay
Jul 2, 20180 min read
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