New pear trees against repaired garden wall
With lots of help from family and specially thanks to Kate we successfully planted 20 new fruit trees in the orchard and garden on 28th Jan – a variety of apple, pear and plum with a quince thrown in, so lucky to get them in the ground before the snow came down, and to be able to wish them well with a little wassailing event in the evening – ancient lore has it that fruit trees respond well to a song or two and a dousing of cider, so perhaps this will become another Cotesbach annual special.