Well here we are half way through October, the nights are drawing in but we have still had some lovely sunny days, but we would like a little rain we don’t usually think of October as being dry but we have been several weeks without any decent rain and the crops would like a little drink.
We are still busy on the nursery at the moment, we are still harvesting daily along with getting the overwintered crops weeded and ready for the winter to give us the crops during the winter and early spring. We have just planted some more early Daffodil bulbs in the field to give us some nice spring flowers to sell.
In the glasshouse we have got Spring flowering bulbs, Pansies, Polyanthus and Wallflowers and waiting to get planted to give that colour in the spring. The pansies are in flower now so you can enjoy the colour now and again in the Spring.
As you will have noticed we have moved the Farm shop around, It has been 10 years since we moved in the new shop and had not made hardly any changes since, so buying a new chiller to put in the shop gave us the ideal reason to have a change. We are pleased with the new look and have had a lot of positive comments from customers and we thank you for those, we always like hearing your views and will listen to any suggestions.
The new chiller is now working and hopefully the first delivery of Dingle Dell pork is due in tomorrow, we are starting with Ham, Sausages and Bacon and will increase the range as time goes on, please speak to us about what you would like to see us stock.
We are currently harvesting:
Cabbage
Cauliflower
Calabrese
Calabrese Shoots
Sprouting Broccoli
Beetroot
Leeks
Parsley
5 varieties of Lettuces
Celeriac
Why not pop along and see us it is always lovely to see you.
The Genuine Roselea Nursery tells the real story of Fake Farms!
Did you know the supermarkets are potentially misleading customers on the origin of their food? The supermarkets have recently introduced their own Farm Brands. For example Orchard Farm – Fruit and Hillside Farm – Beef. This leads us to believe the food is from a farm in Britain but the ‘Farms’ are fictional and do not exist. Unlike Roselea Nursery, where much of the produce in our shop is grown here on the nursery or sourced locally from suppliers with whom we have worked for many years, that newly branded supermarket food has almost certainly travelled many miles and is probably produced to standards well below those we are used to in the UK.
The early morning BBC Radio 4 program ‘Farming Today’ has recently focused on this subject and this attention has raised many complaints. We at Roselea Nursery are not only going to continue to produce fresh, local food of great quality, we are going to make sure our valued and loyal customers are made even more aware of the tricks of the supermarkets.
Roselea Nursery is not in the business of here today and gone tomorrow. The team here work hard to give you what you want and we believe that is, as we say on our website “the freshest crops and the friendliest service”.
But we need to know. Please send us your comments and use this email address to do so… roseleanursery6@gmail.com. We will investigate each mail we receive and we will do all we can to help you to continue to enjoy our produce. Please help us in our work to deliver you an even better service in the future. Thank you very much.
The Roselea Nursery Team.
