The community orchard planted in
Ladywell Fields in 2011 is thriving but, like any orchard, it needs constant
care and attention if the trees are to grow strongly and avoid disease. This is
one of our twice-yearly volunteer sessions at which you can learn and help prune
the trees, inspect and repair the guards and mulch the trees with woodchip to
keep weeds down.
At this session you'll also be
able to take a look inside the Iona Orchard nature reserve, a lovely quiet
wilderness behind a locked gate at the southern end of Ladywell
Fields.
To register your interest in
participating please email ladywellfields@yahoo.co.uk If
you do come and you have any of the following please bring them - thick
gloves, secateurs and garden buckets. Also, at the risk of stating the obvious,
come in work clothes with robust shoes!
If the weather is seriously bad on Sunday 31 January, we have a fallback date which is Sat 27 February.