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Living Willow Maintenance

 

The willow will be dormant soon, so I’ve put together a list of maintenance tasks to keep your structure looking tip-top and not reverting to becoming a small grove of willow trees!

You can download the list as a word document or PDF by clicking on the appropriate link:

Living Willow Maintenance – Task List – Word [...]

Living Willow Wales at the Lampeter Apple Day

Living Willow Wales stall at Lampeter Apple Day Oct 10th 2009

Living Willow Wales (me and Lisa) did our first willow stall back on Oct 10th 2009 at the Lampeter Apple Day, and lots of fun it was too! Getting everything together was hard work but it seemed to be appreciated. And we even had enough [...]

Organics Apple Day

We (Living Willow Wales) will be having our first ever willow based stall at Organics Apple Day  on Saturday Oct 10th at 11am until 3am.

From their site: “It’s apple and pear time of the year. In our shop we are now selling a wide range of UK produced apples and pears. To celebrate this year’s [...]

Willow season hotting up

So it’s that time of year again – it’s autumn and it’s TREE TIME! The popularity of the living willow structures are continuing and we’re starting to get the first calls of the season from the schools. We’re also getting interest from fetes, fairs and schools about doing displays. This doesn’t really work with the living [...]

Willow harvest, garlic tops and hedge laying

Just rediscovered this blog I was so keen about last year. Events of the moment:

first shoots of music garlic popping up;
40m of very sexy hedge laying completed which my dad very helpfully came and lent a hand with (phew! 5m a day);
harvested bundled and sold the entire willow harvest (primary schools love em – [...]

Vegetable gate

Weather: A nice mix of weather up there at the moment. It’s gone back to more normal sunshine and showers, quite close though.

Willow: The willow is coming on well; some shoots are up to two feet long now. The solar molar – or whatever – is still keeping the rabbits off the willow plots inside [...]