Mother's Day at the allotment was humming!
The kumara harvest was most productive and was shared out after our delicious pot-luck lunch.
Harvesting are Bev, Rosie, Nigel, Birthe, Trevor and Jane.
The start of the harvest...
Freshly dug and a good size. The kumara were planted in November and have been in for their 6 month growing period. The kumara leaves are also good as a wilted green in stir-fries.
Immaculate rows of lettuce are the picture of nutrition and vibrant health.
Abbey and VJ, as Marita lands from leaping across the garden bed! They are planting out peas and mulching with straw. Sarah, Sarah and Cathy beyond.
Climbing frames of leftover bamboo tops are placed in amongst the peas to grow up - ingenious. Sarah, Abbey, Marita and Cathy at work.
Our fabulous Composters! Ian, Arthur, Brendan and Trevor.
Many hands making light work.
Sarah and Helen
Our magnificent 'French Drivers' Benedicte et Karine - transporting the prepared cardboard boxes to the food forest for mulching over.
Birte,VJ, Sinead, Marita, Sarah, Sarah, Helen and Bev.
John continues the sweet pea flower frame.
Brilliant work by Stephanie and Mike. Mike is edging the grass with his Fijian cane knife.
Emptying the noxious weed drum are Arthur and Brendan, while Sarah and Nigel oversee where it has been fed into the communal plot.
Alison, Jane and Rosie.
Rylie, Shamus and Benjamin in the shade house reading together.
Liz in the herb garden. And mulching the pathway with Rebekah, Sinead and Sarah.
Jan and Karine, with Sinead and Ian prepare the cardboard by removing all the plastic tape from it before it is used as a layer to mulch over in the food forest.
The offending plastic separated off the boxes.
Trevor gets into the swale to harvest Jerusalem Artichokes.
Slim pickings on the rain gauge - luckily we have had some wet weather since the working bee.
Happy children!
Clare, VJ and Birte weeding the brassica's.
Sarah and Gabriel.
Working Compost!
The bins turned, loaded and looking ship-shape.
Robbie and trusty wheelbarrow.
Bev and Trevor's Tamarillo's as part of our potluck lunch. Delicious.
Some of our harvest shared out.
The Sanctuary Community Gardens Community looking beautiful,
Happy Mother's Day everyone.
