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Wolf Moon, Seeds and Sea

I missed the full moon last night but it greeted us as we drew the curtains this morning, still full and in a pinky sunrise sky.

Last year, on onion sowing day, I was the only one in the polytunnel and planted all 8000 seed alone. This year there was a brilliant team of four of us, weighing, counting, sowing and in a couple of weeks we’ll be potting them on as here, just two weeks after sowing!

Weighing 1gr of seeds for one seed tray.

It has been a gloriously sunny day, apricity at its best, so much so we had our coffee break outside at Roots this morning. In the afternoon, we went to the cliffs at St Agnes to see the sea and catch the sun on the waves.

 

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Helpers, Signs and Decorations

I love it when the little ones come to Roots and get stuck in to various jobs. This youngster was helping to put compost into pots for the cuttings to be potted on. We also had canine assistance today!

I wrote the names of various winter salads on the paddles I painted last week and prepared another batch of paddles to be written on next week.

Our front inner door has two of our oldest and favourite decorations on it now, one on each side of the original etched glass.

Our Polish Christmas tree

Our American wreath of hearts

 

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Community Roots, Kohl Rabi and Candle

Being winter, there is less sowing and planting so today I re-painted the sign boards and will do the lettering next week. The last of the carrots were harvested. Over coffee we always go over the jobs board and decide what next to get on with.

This is our Kohl Rabi. We’ve not eaten one before so will try it out soon.

Our Advent candle, photo taken yesterday

 

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Carrots, Raindrops and Happiness

There was snow in much of the UK today but not here in Cornwall. We just had extremely heavy rain but that didn’t put off some hardy volunteers from harvesting the last of the carrots. Photos by M – thank you.  I worked in the poly tunnel helping to pot on the baby Echium plants.

Raindrops do leave pretty jewels on leaves.

Coffee break today in the poly tunnel, a photo sent to missing crew with love.  What a happy bunch we are and what a tonic it is to spend time in their company. .

 

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Flowers, Asparagus and Hopes

Next door to Roots is a small company van where beautiful flowers grown on a local specialist farm are bunched up for sale. There are fresh blooms and dried flowers and all of them are gorgeous.

Today a small team of us repotted 144 young asparagus plants. Not long ago they were a miniature forest and now they are nearly ready for their permanent home. My Mum, whose birthday is today, would have loved this whole enterprise.

We are watching events in America with bated breath and hope all turns out well with no bad repercussions…….

 

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Squash, Gladiolus and Pear

It’s Tuesday, it’s Roots day. I helped to harvest squash and chillies today.

Yesterday I picked the last Gladiolus and brought it home, all in bud. Now in the warmth of the kitchen it has bloomed.

Look how pretty the slice of pear is.

 

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The Loveliness of Roots and Embroidery

It was a beautiful day today for working at Community Roots along with other volunteers including several children.  The site was full of colour and veggies ready for harvesting.

R in the mud kitchen

Ready to be made into soup in the kids’ mud kitchen

A few of the 8,000 onions being harvested

I finished off my new patch for the Redruth StoryCoat by adding the bluebells this afternoon so now it can go away to be sewn on.

War grave to F R Gill and his mother Mary Angove Gill

 

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Community Roots, A Gift and A Poem

Such a busy day at Roots, school holidays means lots of youngsters all doing their bit. More onions harvested today too.

The post brought a package, two beautiful crochet butterflies made for me by a wonderful blog follower in my favourite Suffragette colours, purple, white and green. Thank you so much, J.

I’ve posted Lemm Sissay’s poetry before and when I saw this lovely mural on Fb had to share it. I don’t know the artist or the photographer to credit. Please help if you can.

 

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Potting On, Poly Tunnels and A Petal

Volunteering at Community Roots is such a joy. The place and the people combine to make this a place where you can be put back together as you work and chat. Today three of us potted up countless baby asparagus plants, beautiful little things that together in their seed tray looked like a miniature forest of Christmas trees.

I hadn’t been up there for several weeks and the growth in the poly tunnels was remarkable, cucumbers ready for harvesting , red tomatoes likewise, beans galore – such abundance.

Walking about I spotted a beautiful poppy petal, blown off by the wind, and lying among the clover.

 

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Kindness, View and A Lily

A lovely friend with whom I sing at choir and work with at Community Roots, has today brought us a big pan of soup, so thick her daughter calls it ‘stewp’! She made it with masses of fresh vegetables all  grown at Community Roots and when others heard the meal was coming to us, added tomatoes, green beans and a big bunch of parsley. It was such a ‘stewp’ that it was our entire delicious evening meal with some crunchy homemade croutons.
Other friends have kept our tomatoes at the allotment well watered.The kindness of friends this week has been just wonderful.  .

I have enjoyed the view of flowers from the kitchen window.

Our lily is blooming.

 

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