This morning I went to the Walsden polytunnel site of Incredible Edible Growers, which we now call 'Incredible Farm'. We have two appointments, Beth on the left is the manager and Mike on the right is the grower. Mike's daughter is still learning.
There was a hard frost, as usual, after a week of torrential rain then snow.
In the southern polytunnel there is a wood-burning stove and very welcome it was this morning. Most of the raised beds are sheeted up. To me it has the feel of a home-made locomotive in polythene - it's an installation!
It's easier than you'd think to be given masses of owd tyres off of farm vehicles. These have made several pop-up raised beds especially for cuttings and graftings.
And despite the very late sowing and planting out of these brassicas, and all the rain and frost there are some sprouts. Perhaps for Christmas. The rats have eaten all the purple sprouting broccoli. It's my community bed by the way which is very well kept.
I think the hens were roaming fairly freely this morning, so the cock is on his own.
Nick and Mick have put down a lot of duck boarding which was really needed as the water-table of the site is at ground level, rather than say a few feet below it!
Now to the real purpose of my visit this morning. We do not have good photos of our bare-rooted fruit bushes to post on the web site for online sales. There are real difficulties taking such photos on a site like ours which is, to put it mildly, very wet and very dirty, not to say frozen. On A's advice I bought white display sheeting and mocked up a set in the polytunnel so that one can see the two year old grafted apple as clearly as possible. This is picture dmg4522 (no, no, about the eighth one) and for me it's going to work. What I now need is a specimen that is not still frozen so the roots can be shown clearly. Thing is the sheeting method works, using a tripod with the specimen elevated on a bench and a good old fixed 50mm lens.
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