Much milder this week and, today, sunshine and frogs. A *lot* of frogs! And a lot of frogspawn. There are various small ponds all over the site that are starting to fill up with frogspawn – and today, the pond … Continue reading Build it. They will come.
Although low lying, our site is quite exposed – particularly since the adjoining factory buildings were demolished a few years ago. This means that a lot of litter discarded on the main road, retail park and footpath finds its way … Continue reading Soggy Litter Pickin
Whenever there is a hint of snow or a sharp frost, it’s worth a trip to the allotment with a camera (and a flask of hot coffee!). You might even get lucky and snap a fox without realising it is … Continue reading New Year Freeze – and a Fox!
A damp day and a small group, but we got plenty done. We focused on the mini food-forest today, adding plants to it and tidying the paths. You might remember we planted the food forest up earlier this year, putting … Continue reading Food Forest Additions
Storm Claudia swept through Coventry on Friday and now our pond is a lake and the water butts are all full! We even spotted a Grey Wagtail checking out the new facilities! If you really squint, you can see it … Continue reading The rain it raineth every day
Beautiful autumn day for a working party, and a good turn out. There was a bit of general maintenance of the mini food forest areas, but our main focus was on enlarging the pond/scrape/boggy areas in the mini nature reserve. … Continue reading November Working Party
The cobwebs acted as pretty effective mist-catchers this morning… Continue reading Definitely Autumn
Another beautiful sunny autumn Sunday. The plan for today was to see how far we could get digging out some ponds and scrapes to help intentionally store water on the land in the mini-nature reserve. We’ve tried to time the … Continue reading Digging in
On Sunday, organised by the Mothers Who Make an Allotment group, artist-photographer Jo Gane set up her mobile darkroom at the allotment. Jo’s artistic practice uses historical photographic techniques and she was making tin-type portraits of members of the group … Continue reading Moments in time
The beginning of September already. The hottest, driest summer anyone can remember ended with a little rain. The rainwater collection tanks and damp meadow gratefully absorbed it, but where the ground was compacted, the rain barely made an impression. Rainwater … Continue reading End of summer working party
Urban Allotment: climate resilience & community 