NEW NATURE TRAIL

We are invited to attend the opening on Saturday 18 July from 2 to 4pm of the new Nature Trail which runs just off Grub Street.
The path now goes off from the Community Orchard trail into a lovely clearing that is ideal for picnics and the children at school will be using it for their new Forest School
Do join us - and bring your family and dogs as it is a lovely trail that goes through the woods by Grub Street.  Refreshments will be available and the trail will be opened by the donors of the grant to Limpsfield in Bloom, who have also funded this joint project.

 

A SUCCESSFUL WORKING PARTY

A group of 8 of us gathered in the Orchard this week, to give it a final tidy before we are judged on Thursday 9 July as part of the Limpsfield In Bloom Competition.

The trees are nicely free of weeds, the apples have been thinned and the some of the brambles tamed. The hedging plants have had a trim and in some areas are beginning to look like proper hedges.

We hope the crop will be as good as last year….but the pears are again disappointing for some reason, and 3 of the apple trees are suffering from possibly apple scab, a fungal disease which is very common. We do not wish to spray the trees as we try to maintain organic growing methods. The extreme heat and dryness does not help….we really need some rain soon to help swell the crop.

But the Orchard is still looking very pretty, 

the foxgloves have been really lovely and it is an ideal place to have a little picnic with your children or grandchildren now we are having such warm weather.
Tasting day is Saturday 12 September from 10.30am. Do please come along and taste some of our fruit and perhaps take some home with you.

  General view of the Orchard  June 2015