This is the bottom end of the Allotments where we keep the bee hives or Apiary, its disused allotments that have been used as a scrap yard in the past as a result it can no longer be used to grow veg being contaminated with heavy metals mainly cadmium also oil, plastics, bonfire ash, bricks, plaster and general rubbish by the skip load.
Manchester Uni have been testing the soil and plants,they have a student doing a PhD growing veg in different soil treatments
We have been working clearing a patch of land to create a flower garden, mainly perennials and wild flowers the pics are how the garden look in late summer,the plants not yet all established but with more work and plants we should finish up with a beautiful botanic garden, slow going.
The aim of the garden is to help the honeybees bumblebees and other pollinating and beneficial insects which were in real trouble this summer with the wet cold weather,there is also a large patch of fodder plants for the larvae of Butterflies and Moths,so hopefully you will see more of the colourful ones next year.
Plants and seeds from the garden will be propagated for sale in the Society greenhouse and poly tunnel.
