Harvest time for our Step Outside garden group

We were blessed with glorious sunshine this week at our allotment.

Fiona, our wonderful volunteer, took on the mammoth task of cutting back and harvesting our abundant chard bed. Those who wanted to got busy weeding and clearing so Sue and Robert could sow our last carrots for this year. Alan helped me clear the tomatoes, which very sadly were blighted. Valerie was gifted with a lovely bunch of sweetpeas picked by Alan and said how beautiful they smelt!

We were especially delighted to have Aileen rejoin our garden group. It was lovely to see her again and she was so happy to have the company and the chance to share memories with everyone. She also helped got her hands dirty helping us with the weeding while the amazing Tim and Brenda tackled the comfrey… again!

It’s good to see that Brian has recovered amazingly well after his hip operation…we did ‘try’ to keep him on light duties! But you can’t keep a good man down as they say.

Les and his daughter and granddaughter also joined us for the afternoon and helped us pick the beans.

There was such an abundance of produce which we shared between everyone. And of course, we enjoyed tea and lots of cake! All in all, we had a jolly good afternoon together in the sun.

If you’d like to join us we meet every 2nd and 4th Friday of the month 2-4 pm at Kingston Lacy Allotments. Get in touch to book your space.