Food Forest building – Page 6

Apple Tree Spider Moth

Our older Apple trees are full with the Apple Tree Spider Moth. I also found a Sloe Brush Spinner.
If someone has experience with caterpillars and I have the types wrong, feel free to comment and correct me.

My Elderflowers where rained upon

I won’t be making Elderflower syrup this year. We had a heavy rain shower with about 30 ml in a short period of time. These flowers are useless for making syrup, but there are some more flowers coming. Maybe I am lucky and can harvest some flowers later.

We took out a blackberry patch

It was mainly bare and hat only little life in it

We had a big and broad patch of wild growing blackberries. We hat left this for the birds and as a winter resting place for the hedgehog. Now this blackberry patch is bare on the inside with only little life on the outer branches. There are now birds nesting in it and the winter is over long enough that the hedgehog is active again, so we decided to take the blackberries out. Luckily we have a big flail mower which can do that.