After such a dry spell of weather it is such a joy to see the rain soaking into the ground which was getting so dry. In true British style of course it chose a Bank Holiday to visit us when most working people were looking forward to enjoying some of that lovely sunshine that we’ve been having over the last few weeks.
On Saturday it was still dry although clouds were gathering down at the garden. Our lovely Lois the keen photographer who supplies us with some fab photos, is away for the break so was not around to capture the activity but it was going on in all four corners as well as the middle.
The contents of the four large water butts were emptied onto the fruit bushes and cleaned ready to receive the long awaited rain, good forethought our Rosemary! Captain Love and Peace was planting some flowers near HQ, Captain Fruity along with Captain Pumpkin (a bit of joint team work here) were sorting out the strawberry patch, digging feeding and planting some new strawberries. The pig arc was lowered and multiple children formed a wood loading group to store the wood in the arc to keep it dry captained by Aiden. Alfie, the youngest member was like a mini Bob-the-buider, carrying large bits of wood on his shoulder, chanting “big,big, big”.
Onions were weeded and more planting was going on in the polytunnel. A new member Kelly joined in with all the activity, she’s recently moved here , a keen gardner and cook, she was pleased to join in.
Amidst it all Angie brought a whole nest full of chocolate eggs for us all to enjoy. How lucky were we?
Scaffolding poles have now been delivered courtesy of our very helpful neighbour Mr. Forster and this week it’s hoped to get our fruit cage started. Yay!
We all went home with a little harvest of produce, leeks, purple sprouting broccoli, rhubarb and our first cutting from the cut-and-come-again salad leaves growing in the polytunnel. What joy!!!
Tangmere Community Garden 
The rhubarb crumble I made was divine, I threw in a couple of strawberries, yummy. Don’t forget to get you salad stuff from the Poly tunnel, cut leaves from the mixed border on the lefthand side and from the red lettuce on the right. Still a few radish in there as well. Peashoots soon, now I have started eliminating the mice that were eating them!