FIVE YEARS OLD......

We are celebrating 5 years of our Limpsfield Community Orchard Trail which was officially opened in May 2014 by Cllr Nick Skellet.

 

We would like you to join us at the lych gate at St Peter's Church at 3pm on Sunday 14 April so that we can walk gently up to the Orchard together.

 

There will be tea and apple cake waiting for us....and hopefully lots of beautiful blossom too. 

 

Do join us......if you don't want to do the walk come along to the Orchard anyway.....you will be very welcome

 

Looking forward to seeing lots of you there.

 

Early Blossom?

This pic shows a Buerre Hardy Pear which is budding up nicely. 
We had 13 people in the Orchard on Saturday 23 March to weed and mulch round the trees. It's all looking nicely tidy now.....and we look forward to a good crop. I think the blossom will be 2 to 3 weeks early.....unless we have some late frost we should do well.

Spring in the Orchard

.....the first Mirabelle in full blossom on 9 March 2019.

Very early.....

PRUNING 2019

I am pleased to say that we have now done our 2019  apple and pear pruning with the help of Jan Lambourn.  Some of the trees sadly are still showing some canker meaning that we had to prune quite severely in places but on the whole we are pleased with growth and there are some good fruit buds fattening up.  The Mirabelle are already in full flower.

The harvest will all depend now on whether we get frosts at the time the blossoms are opening.

We are very much hoping it will be a better year for the pears which were marvellous in 2017 but very disappointing in 2018.