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Appleby Rd Community Garden at QKS is a safe space for the local community to grow, learn, train and enjoy the natural environment.

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Sowing shop bought dried peas to grow for pea shoots. Lovely in salads

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Perks of the garden project

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Mid summer crop share

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Bumble bees dodging the rain

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Getting lots of good views of our two resident newt species this week. We have both Palmate and Common newt in the pond. This is a Palmate with it's distinctive back feet and tail- end.

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We sow a crop of Wizard field beans in Oct and they always do really well on our site. Looking like a bumper crop on the way. Almost ready to pinch out the tops (when the beans start to form) to add to the crop share

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Spot the frog

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Our new pond is already attracting some visitors and we haven't even finished digging it out yet! These Red mason bees are gathering mud for their nests.

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A busy week dodging the showers. Finally sowed marrowfat peas for shoots and our courgettes (Burpees Golden Zucchini) and squash (Burgess vine buttercup from Real Seed Catalogue

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Lovely to see our resident hedgehog out and about in our forest garden today especially as it's #HedgehogWeek

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Thanks to everyone from QKS Eco School Committee @QKS_Eco who came on Saturday and started to dig out the new pond funded by Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust @GreenYdmt

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Thanks to ex student Callum Simpson for giving up a Saturday morning to fell one of our Scots Pine to use in our garden classroom woodburner next winter.

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Willow, willow, willow! with #selsideprimaryschool yr5 and yr6 in the garden last week.

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Thanks to everyone who came along on the 7th to prune the orchard and thanks to Andy Gilchrist from SLOG for showing us how to do it!

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Chilly morning down the gardens & allotment #allotments #winter

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Beautiful female toad in the garden today