Soon be time to begin harvesting the salad leaf crops

Yellow rattle on our wildlife friendly banking

Yellow rattle is an attractive grassland annual which is semi-parasitic on grasses and so weakens them, giving other wild flowers a chance to compete and gradually establish themselves.

Watering and feeding plants in the poly tunnel

Early morning on our grow your own scheme

The lilac shrubs are now in flower adding colour to the planted borders

Our wild flowers are attracting a variety of butterflies

Common blue butterfly on yellow rattle

Dingy skipper on birds foot trefoil

Wild flowers are beginning to flower on the wildlife friendly areas

The youngsters have finally left the nest

 

Tomato plants are growing well in the poly tunnel

Several planters have been prepared and are now ready to use

Planting out tomato seedlings

Sacred Heart Primary School have been busy tending to their planter

Watering lettuce in the raised planters

Our bird nest boxes and this years inhabitants

An early start for some watering their seedlings

A summer like start to the day

An early morning bumblebee feeding on a dandelion

New stakeholders MIND Ulverston Mums exploring the poly tunnel

Picture courtesy of our coordinator Ged Pickersgill

Beaumont College and Graham have had a busy morning

Watering and transplanting a variety of seedlings

Thinning out lettuce seedlings