09/10/2026
🥬 🫘 🍂 A lovely autumnal week in the garden with the first ground frosts, the last of our summer harvests, and lots of beautiful ripening seeds (being left for wildlife or to save and sow next year).
At our open sessions, our brilliant volunteers have been planting out winter salads in the tunnel (mizuna, pak choi, winter lettuces, coriander, and mustard greens), continuing their mammoth effort tending to the very long strawberry patch, and enjoying harvests of winter squash, cabbages, beans and herbs.
We ended the week with some more apple fun, giving our wee press (now affectionally called Melanie!) a good outing. This delicious golden juice will go in the freezer until our midwinter volunteer celebration, where it'll be mulled with lots of warming spices 🫖 ❄️ 🍎
A special shout out this week to our incredible Watering Volunteer Team who have been coming every morning and evening, every week, for 6 months and are now laying down the watering cans for a well-earned break. We wouldn't be able to grow such fantastic food in the tunnel, bring plants through the exceptionally dry periods we're experiencing, or keep the treasured tunnel safe without them. Enormous thanks and well done 👏
📧 If you would like to find out more about volunteering with us, we would love to hear from you. Drop us a message at [email protected] or drop in on a Tuesday or Friday 10am-12 to have a look around and say hello.
No gardening experience necessary, a wide variety of ways to be involved, and lovely plants and people to meet.
