The signs of a good Boot-up! meeting…

Easter Party!

It’s the end of term and what a sunny day! Easter egg hunt… in the strawberry patch… Easter rabbit hole! Today we were really productive and made windmills, which work well as bird scarers and shine in the spring sun…. ….amazing wooden stools with Rory, painted bright sunny colours…. …planted the clay pots we made […]

People & Places visit

We were invited by the Eden Project’s People & Places Project to have a look around their nurseries near Pentewan. One of their team was making a show display for the Spring Flower Show at Boconnoc on Saturday. They were making a ‘ Living Room’ A living armchairA living carpetlots of plants for the display […]

Bamboozled

The National Trust’s Head Gardener at Glendurgan Garden harvested some bamboo for us to use on the Bottle Greenhouse build project. We had to go and get it… we did not expect it to be soooo bushy! You can imagine what this looked liked driving over to Boot Up!

Paint-Fest

The Build in nearly finished and before the flooring goes down we thought it would be nice to paint the floor! Everyone got a square (or oblong!) to design and off they go………… We have taken photos of it to keep on display in the build -soon to be christened The Den. It seems a […]

Super Cabbage aka Purple sprouting Brocolli

We have waited all winter in trepidation as to the real identity of ‘super cabbage’, keeping it as a ‘show veg’, in hope it would blossom, and he has now shown his colours as purple sprouting broccoli! Hurray! One of my favourite veg 🙂

Poly-tunnel Planting Plan 2011 (what a mouth full!)

Finally our new planting plan for this year is ready!Researching different techniques we have decided to try and follow a crop-rotation system, companion planting where possible. We also want to focus as much as possible on salads and obviously those plants which like it hot in the Poly tunnel. We have removed the remnants of […]

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