Thanks to David for pointing out this beautiful Elephant Hawk-Moth visiting on his plot recently. What a stunner! Otherwise known as Deilephila Elpenor (that’s easy for you to say!)
We are keen to build up photos and information about all the wildlife our site supports. If you have any photos or information about sightings please send them on to me or Norman.
Things have been doing great in the Polytunnel this season, but the plants can easily scorch in the heat if the doors are not opened for ventilation. If you notice the doors are closed on arrival on site please open them up if you can.
With every season our site offers up more and more surprises: these beauties caught my eye as I left this afternoon.
My thanks to Stephanie Morrison from RGU for alerting me to this very interesting article on possible funding sources, but just how much work is needed to secure them.
My thanks go to Sandy Menzies over at the Slopefield Site for alerting me to this opportunity for plotters.
My Harvest is a university-led UK research project that is looking to recruit individual plotters to help them learn about the contribution allotments make to food production nationally.
In their own words:
The research team at the University of Sheffield are working with members of the public growing food in allotments, gardens and other own-growing spaces across the UK to understand the yield of typical UK staple fruit and vegetable crops.
By providing the team with the area of land you use to grow a crop and the weight of the crop you harvest you would be:
1. Contributing to a first national estimate of own-grown food production in the 21st century.
2. Helping us to understand how much allotment and garden space we need in the future to ensure sufficient access for the growing number of people living in our cities and towns.
The research project has a number of partners:
If you would like to know more, or want to take part, head on over to the My Harvest Homepage.
Our Community Sunday activities got off to a rather chaotic start today , with the usual suspects in very frisky and somewhat indisciplined form. Peter for one seemed to be re-living a past experience of some peasant revolt or other.
Luckily, once he was done resting his fork, Phil stepped in, quickly establishing his front-line HQ and demonstrating strong and stable leadership (where have I heard this phrase before?) he started issuing orders to the troops from his mobile management communications device.
He soon had the team whipped into shape. As you can see this made a world of difference.
The phrase, Dads’ Army meets the Women’s Land Army somehow springs to mind. However, great progress was made on the Wild Flower Area Mark II and it was a great pleasure to welcome Priscilla and her family on site.
All in all it was another great Community Sunday. Thanks to all who pitched up and apologies to those (many) others who yet again missed out on getting their photos taken.
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