{"id":6803,"date":"2019-12-10T11:55:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T10:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=6803"},"modified":"2019-12-10T11:55:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T10:55:36","slug":"pottering-in-the-orchards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=6803","title":{"rendered":"Pottering in the Orchards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The odd dry day has allowed us to get out and potter in the orchards.<\/span><\/strong> Even in mid-November we were picking apples in the Welsh Orchard. However, the main activities were pruning the fruit trees, strimming and re-locating plants in the herb garden that were becoming invasive, such as Comfrey. The hedgerow in the Community Orchard has had a good trim and we have continued to plant apple, plum and damson trees down at Goldsland.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst the heavy rain has caused it to be a bit wet in parts of the Community Orchard, think back to how things were before we planted the orchard. The photo shows the whole area where the orchard is now, under water up to the nearby goalpost, during the winter before we started planting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The odd dry day has allowed us to get out and potter in the orchards. Even in mid-November we were picking apples in the Welsh Orchard. However, the main activities were pruning the fruit trees, strimming and re-locating plants in the herb garden that were becoming invasive, such as Comfrey. The hedgerow in the Community Orchard has had a good [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6cWjO-1LJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8019,"url":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=8019","url_meta":{"origin":6803,"position":0},"title":"Discover our 5 Community Orchards","author":"Alan Williams","date":"11th August 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Nature Notes Discover our 5 Community Orchards With more and more people discovering one or more of our 5 Community Orchards, all designed and planted by the Wenvoe Wildlife Group, the question is often raised - What has this got to do with wildlife? 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