Tatworth Community Crop Production Project - History in Photos May 2009



Tatworth Community Crop Production Project - History in Photos May 2009
May 2009 Photos
5th to 25th May 2009 Tuesday 5th May 2009 ..... the ‘Club Hut’ arrives ! This is where it's going .....

..... excitement as HQ arrives!



















































HQ in final resting place





Andrew and Liz take ownership!



Andrew takes 'ownership' of the Portacabin



Sandra's thrill at the shallots coming on rapidly!

Look's bare doesn't it?

But we have a tool store, meeting room and place to kip after too much at the Poppe Inn!

Liz, Sandra and Andrew at the spuds



Sandra with new friend - after it had warmed up!



Changes to the boggy bit and things growing! Tuesday 12th May 2009

The compost heap started and rough stuff to be burned in the foregound

Clearing the boggy side continues .....

..... as you can see!

Finally water starts draining out of the spring under the ash tree - the kids' swing tree!

Saturday 16th May 2009 Andrew and George drawing up under the potato heads and John clearing vegetation in the boggy patch





Peter and Liz joining us to draw up in the potato crop



Liz and Joe join in





Liz starts digging a new patch for beetroot





Luke doing three times as much as Liz and I did in half the time .....

..... with Stanley's supervision!



Tuesday 19th May 2009 Claire Littlejohn, Community Development Officer, working with Joe on the potato crop





Potatoes looking very strong





The shallots doing really well



Thursday 21st May 2009 Liz and John surveying the first row of Anne's tomato plants



Anne taking credit for them as she deserves!

John using a sickle on the nettles using his forked stick to clear them - ancient techniques he learned when he was 17

Saturday 23rd May 2009 Andrew, Julia and Chris drawing up potato heads

Chloe and Ellie

We gotta water supply from the well !!

Who's feeding who?

Monday 25th May 2009 Andrew preparing for runner bean wigwams

Nick stone picking

John clearing holly, blackthorn and brambles from the stream

John and Andrew doing yet more wigwams

Finally John and I have finished clearing the vegetation from the boggy side ready for .....

..... ready for the next step - cutting off the turf ready for digging over

The first crop planted on the boggy side in a really marshy bit - Giant Pumpkins



Sandra and Andrew admiring the potato crop

Andrew and me digging for more runner bean wigwams

Anne Cambridge's 50 tomato plants after watering from the well

Admiring the pumpkin patch

Thirteen wigwam plots prepared!