The second Saturday at Cuckoo Hall Orchard with the Aldborough Hatch Defence Association and The Urban Orchard Project found us continuing to cut back the undergrowth to reveal yet another apple tree. We built a massive pile of clippings and undergrowth for Redbridge Council to clear - which they did as promised and even swept up the car park too leave it clean and tidy afterwards. WE learned how to bark ring to kill saplings at their roots - Balkrishna and Revd Lovesey are seen at work here. It was a reward for our hard work to see come superb cooking apples against the blue cloudless sky. Next there is work to be done mulching around the trees to prevent weeds and sitting back the ivy which we have killed lower down - all giving light and air to the trees that now seeing daylight for the first time in years!
