ADAPT Saturday Market

Saturday 1st August Lord Combermere Carpark.

ADAPT Saturday Market.

Our gardens are still parched despite the recent splash of rain, we need much more to turn our gardens and flower beds green again. Our wildlife has also suffered from the drought. The birds, small mammals and insects are turning more resourceful to stay alive at some expense of our garden produce. My latest, is an invasion of squirrels chewing the juiciest apples on the trees. Most of the soft fruit harvest this year provided a much needed food supply to the garden birds. Some years we have excess to freeze and put on the market stall.

This year is a warning that our summers are changing. The canny gardeners are taking a look now at what plants can cope with prolonged droughts, my lavender and marjoram are doing well and providing much needed sustenance for our bees and butterflies, I shall be planting more next year, and surprisingly the deep rooted parsnips and rhubarb are still alive. Take a look at your gardens and make some judgements for next year.

On the market this week we will be the Free Range Eggs all kept just right in cool boxes. Also we have a few beans, courgettes, apple cider vinegar, possibly early potatoes. There will be marmalades, jams and red currant jelly. Bedding Plants and local Honey and beeswax products.

Cakes are also on the stall, with some seasonal bakes with lavender biscuits, lime and blackberry cake and lemon drizzle.

Come early to avoid the heat and get the best choice.

Chris Knibbs
ADAPT Secretary