Peach Cases Compared

The Ingersley Hall (Savio House) walled garden peach case

The Tatton Peach Case

The timber detailing in our Ingersley Hall walled garden structure appears finer than at Tatton.  Simon Tetlow Head Gardener at Tatton thought from the above photographs that ours might be quite old, possibly moved to or remade in its present position.  Based on the brickwork that ours leans against I had thought late Victorian, but it may have leant against something else previously.  Simon thought the lack of a lower opening vent in ours might suggest that in its present form our structure was not set up for growing peaches.  Thanks to Simon for letting us in at Tatton today, as the peach case there is not generally open to the public. 

Three Months Ago Today........

It was a wilderness.....

picture taken 28th January 2012
see also the 'before' picture
with the 20th April 2012 'cold frames' post

Bees

The beehive, set up just outside the garden yesterday evening.

They have been moved here from Chelford,

where they were holidaying on the oilseed rape.

The bee cause is of great interest to the gardeners,

but flowering trees are the main source of pollen

at the moment rather than flowers.

Raised Bed

A new raised bed

Saturday Morning Panorama

A snapshot from Janet's 360 degree panorama taken today

For the whole thing, see

http://360.io/R7Lkgr

Also, the first potatoes are coming through!

Cold Frames

Covered and in use

As they were on 28th January 2012

Garden Path Improvements

Assessing the wreckage of what was once a path

The flags reset a few hours later

Working on the garden infrastructure today were
Angela, Brian, Dave T, John, Raph, Sue and Tom

Building Ghosts

In the north wall, holes for timbers for an old building frame.

Look closely and you can see the boiler house chimney stack in the wall.
In the foreground a not so old glasshouse base dug over by John and Sue for planting

Yes, I went to the ER naked except wrapped in a very loosely crocheted blanket! :lol:

Have you ever wanted something so badly that you would do anything to get it?

Animals

Rosie

One of three very well behaved dogs that visit the garden.

 There is also an unofficial garden black cat called KRIV

as we don't know who owns it and what they call it.

There are numerous mice.

Defences are now in place to keep rabbits out. 

Digging near the North Wall

A new area being opened up by Raph and Sue

Covers for the cold frames are being assembled in the background

Sunset Panorama

Janet's Sunset Panorama

The spooky shadows are Tom and Chris

For 360 degree view, click the link

http://360.io/92EPrb

Compost

Tom using stone from around the garden

to build the compost bays

Happy Valley

Thanks to Tim the Happy Valley webmaster we now have a web page to publicise the garden

http://happy-valley.org.uk/organisations/krivgardeners.htm

Potatoes and White Nancy

Potatoes and White Nancy

Planted by Warren & Nicola

Leaf mould

Several loads delivered by Tim, the Happy Valley webmaster

The sunny North wall

......Before.....

The next area for planting, by the north wall

Apple Trees

Another sunny day

the garden seen through the branches

of the recently pruned apple trees