Happy Christmas from Boot Up!

Apple Day!

Toffee apples galore!!

Colourful PolyTunnel

Laverta, PSB, nasturtiums, tomatoes and purple dwarf beans.... lovely

that pesky spy-cat!

Look who's been climbing UP the poly tunnel! Now that's art ;)

...JAMMING!

Wow! well done team! green purple beans, damson and blackberry and apple jam. Delicious!


Damsons are stewed in a little water, the stones removed, then sugar added and boiled.
What an amazing colour!

Harvesting reading for.....

Look! there's cherries too!
What beautiful fruit!
Hannah and Kim pick the damsons (in the rain!)

Apple trees...

Early summer in the Poly Tunnel

Hannah planting out purple sprouting broccoli to harvest in spring 2012
The heads from last year's purple sprouting broccoli
A very happy butterfly explores the poly tunnel (ready to lay eggs on our new PSB?!)

days of dreaming

Garden in Summer

Allotment Lunch

Yes! we grew a peach! yum yum

ArtFest Open Day

We had a fantastic day




and we painted 2 new murals

We made some more pinhole cameras

Kim did glass painting

Nick Brennan did more Beano Cartoons

The artists came back on open day to show everyone their skills and a meet and greet