October 2014 - planting for spring, planning for a spring

4th-5th October

Work on rainwater collection system. Neil/Lesley and Sally and family chose their Christmas trees.

8th October

Our mains water supply ceased. 

13th October

Met with Robert Charlton to discuss possibilities of using spring overflow. Treecreeper in Hawthorn on Wildflower Meadow. Robbie has completed top barbed wire and most of fence posts for Meadow. 

18th October

John worked on hurdle for Meadow; Clare planted 120 English bluebells and 100 snowdrop bulbs in Top Strip. 

26th October

All chippings bagged; general tidy on Meadow area. 

28th October

Dave H and John did more felling in Top Strip.

30th October

Mel and John did more thinning and brashing in Top Strip. 

Rainwater collection system

Fungi - we really must learn to identify them

The meadow hurdle completed