Plums are ready!!!!

We have today started picking Prolifics, Opals and Czar plums.
50p a pound PYO; 80p a pound ready picked.
Opening times for this coming week (w/b 12th August) are:-
Monday 9am – 7pm
Tuesday 12 – 7pm
Wednesday 9am – 1.30pm
Thursday 9am – 6pm
Friday 9am – 6pm
Friday 9am – 6pm
Saturday 9am – 6pm
Sunday 9am – 6pm

Lazy Sunday Afternoon

We hope our early plums will be ready to pick during our Lazy Sunday Afternoon on Sunday, July 28th. This is a fund raising event in our orchard for Cancer Research UK in advance of our family taking part in Relay for Life in Harrow in September. Afternoon tea and Pimms will be served from 2-5pm. If you want to find out more about Relay, go to
http://www.rfl-harrow.org.uk/what-is-relay-for-life/

If you would like to Gift Aid a donation, no matter how small ( or large!) go to
http://relay.cancerresearchuk.org/site/TR/RelayForLife/General?fr_id=1235&pg=entry

Our team is called The All Stars

Hope to see you there.

White Ladies Aston fete

We are very involved with our village fete which is this coming Saturday – 29th June from 2.30 – 4pm. It is a traditional garden fete with lots of stalls / games for both adults and children held in the lovely gardens of the Old Vicarage WR7 4QH. Excellent refreshments! There is also a large As New boutique in the Parish Room WR7 4QQ. Come and join us if you can.

June 2013

The crop of both plums and apples looks as though it will be very good this year. We escaped the frost and the blossom was quickly pollinated. So, use up any fruit left in the freezer and we look forward to seeing you in a few weeks as you restock. We will let you know when picking begins.

August Bank Holiday Monday 2012

The end of the plum season is rapidly approaching here at Walsgrove. Although we have a wide range of plums available today, there are few left to pick, with only croppers and burbanks to come on.
Apples – Only Katy (an eater) and Grenadier (a cooker) are ready at present but we are hoping that Worcesters and Lambournes will be ripe by about the 8th September, with a range of other varieties following..

Plums 2012

This is proving to be a poor season for plums as pollination rates were low at blossom time – too cool and windy for the bees to get busy. However, we still have purple and yellow pershores and the Victorias are just ready. The fruit is good quality, just not much of it. Consequently, you won’t see us at the Plum Festival this year. If you are passing though, do call in and PYO.