Signs of Life
With the weather getting a bit warmer, there are signs of Spring breaking out all over, and it’s wonderful to see. Continue reading Signs of Life
Category: Habitat Creation
Build it. They will come.
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.
New Year Freeze – and a Fox!
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!
The rain it raineth every day
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
November Working Party
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
Definitely Autumn
The cobwebs acted as pretty effective mist-catchers this morning… Continue reading Definitely Autumn
Digging in
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
End of summer working party
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
July working party
July’s working party was another opportunity to thin and trim the vegetative exuberance of early summer. We concentrated on a ‘chop and drop’ of the comfrey in the mini food-forest, and on pulling bindweed elsewhere on site. Comfrey is deep … Continue reading July working party
Purple Hairstreak(s)
It was very windy, and the butterflies were sitting it out on this plum tree – so no purple wings were actually seen, but the underwings are definitely Purple Hairstreak! This is a butterfly that is reliant on Oak Trees … Continue reading Purple Hairstreak(s)
Urban Allotment: climate resilience & community 