A Week on the Estate: Buzzing Clover, Green Fingers & Freshest Food
It’s a busy and optimistic season at South Ormsby Estate. We’re making hay – and so much more – while the sun shines.
It’s a joy to see volunteers of all ages working together in the Community Vegetable Garden. While there’s loads to do at this time of year, there are plenty of willing hands. Watering is always a useful job, as is keeping the plots spick, span and weed-free. A few walkways have been mowed so that the team can get to the benches to sit and admire their work. The bees are clearly enjoying the flowering clover so the lawn won’t get a full back-and-sides for a while yet.
Speaking of gardening, when you arrange to photograph a gardener, it might not go as you expected. Damian Furlong popped along to the Walled Garden to see Toby Ridsdale and was soon put to work mowing the lawn and laying straw between the rows in the potato patch. Colin has also been busy at the Hall, providing a special spade-to-basket delivery service to Jacqui Rhodes. Food doesn’t get much fresher than the contents of Jacqui’s basket.
