Veg growing week-by-week

Visit here for up-to-the-minute news posts about what’s growing and being harvested – RIGHT NOW –  in veg beds locally and around the UK. As a grower it’s important to get in tune with the seasons and to sow, plant and harvest at the right time, so here you’ll find the latest news from several of the UK’s best.

1) Frith Farm in Beverley, 2) Garden Organic in Coventry and 3) The Real Seed Company in Pembrokeshire. Click on the photos for more information, you do not need Facebook.

If you have a bumper harvest, maybe you’ll be able to pledge some of your harvest to to Freedom Feastival in September?

6 years ago

Phil jumping into a rhythm with the Broadfork!
Preparing a new bed for strawberries transplanting last year's runners.
So exited about these stawberries -
Its a crop that just keeps on giving!

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6 years ago
Frith Farm

26 week locally produced chemical free veg box
Medium box £10 p/w = £260 full payment
First box ready on the 26th June
Sign up on our website
Www.frithfarming.com
*workshare available* ... See more

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6 years ago
Timeline Photos

Few more box sign ups will help us invest in one more tool -
The power harrow allows us to prepare beds and improve soil structure
*Workshare for Monday/Tuesday available*
#bcs #powerharrow ... See more

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6 years ago
Photos from Frith Farm's post

Our first direct sowing of the season with the jang seeder & first transplant with the paperpot transplanter
*Sign up for your box only few places left*
*Workshare available*
#organic ... See more

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6 years ago
Photos from Frith Farm's post

Ostara - Spring equinox is here 🌱🌾🌷 First transplants & first new potatoes
Expect these beauties, plus much much more local goodness in our weekly boxes. Sign up now to secure your weekly ... See more

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6 years ago
WILD THING

AND THE WINNER IS.... Milly Rose👏! Please get in touch lovely yogi!
Everyone else deepest gratitude for spreading the word about our lovely retreat, we hope to see you there💕🧘‍♀️ ... See more

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6 years ago
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Huge thanks to our workshare members who make our farm unique 🙏
We prepared our polytunnel & our N/S salad terrace beds
Only few places left if you want to be a part of our workshare opportunity - ... See more

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6 years ago
Photos from Frith Farm's post

Thanks to Conscious Creations for those magnificent oak handles!
Pure joy testing the wheel hoe, one of the most ergonomic tools I've ever used!
This investment will definitely cut the hours spent ... See more

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6 years ago
WILD THING

Pay as you like to CSA veg box members

Yoga retreat, 18th of May (full moon)

Like & share & tag 3 friends for a chance to win a free place on our Spring Yoga Day Retreat🌸🌱winner revealed on the 20th!!

Join Wild Thing ... See more

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6 years ago
Photos from Frith Farm's post

• Like & share & tag 3 friends chance to win a free place on our Spring Yoga Day Retreat

Join Wild Thing Yoga and Frith Farm on the 18th of May for our Spring Yoga Day Retreat. Through energising ... See more

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8 years ago
Leafmould | www.gardenorganic.org.uk

Collect deciduous #autumn leaves 🍁🍂 and store, to create #leafmould. Make sure leaves are damp, and use plastic sacks with holes for air circulation.

Trials over many years have shown the ... See more

Leafmould What is dark brown, crumbly, good for your garden and completely free? No, it's not chocolate cake. It's leafmould! Autumn leaves rot down to make leafmould. It is easy to make, and it can ... See more

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8 years ago

By donating your old pound coins you would be supporting our ongoing work and projects, helping individuals & communities to lead a healthy & sustainable lifestyle.

If you've found any coins in your ... See more

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8 years ago
Earthworm Watch - Citizen Science

The Earthworm Watch autumn survey is now open!

Find out how to get involved here and represent your region to help fill in the gaps of data? www.earthwormwatch.org/get-involved #wormwednesday

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8 years ago
Garden Organic

Would you like to know more about becoming a member of our unique Heritage Seed Library?

For just £1.50 a month you can play your part in preserving our valuable organic heritage.

Find out about ... See more

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8 years ago
Veteran Tree Seed Event | Warwickshire Wildlife Trust

Join us and Warwickshire Wildlife Trust for our half term veteran tree event. You'll get to collect #acorns from some of the ancient and majestic oak trees in Coombe Country Park.

Join us to meet some amazing ancient trees in Coombe Country Park and collect acorns from the majestic veteran oaks there. We will then travel to Ryton Organic Gardens to pot up our acorns and learn ... See more

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8 years ago
Photos from Garden Organic's post

Now is the perfect time to plant out your #spring cabbages.
www.gardenorganic.org.uk/what-sow-and-plant-october

We've experimented with a range of different of #soil improvers - Organic manure, ... See more

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8 years ago
Make your own natural Christmas decorations | www.gardenorganic.org.uk

Our Natural #Christmas decorations #course has proved so popular, that we're now running an additional afternoon session!

The session will run from 1.30-5pm and spaces are already filling up. To ... See more

Make your own natural Christmas decorations at: Ryton Organic Gardenson: Thursday, 7 December 2017 - 1:30pm to 5:00pmNEW AFTERNOON SESSION Get into the festive spirit and have fun using materials ... See more

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8 years ago
Photos from Garden Organic's post

We popped along to Hill Close Gardens Apple Day & Country Fair yesterday. It was lovely see so many people enjoying themselves and of course lovely to see the sunshine!

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8 years ago
Your Organic Garden in October | www.gardenorganic.org.uk

Have you got big gardening plans for the weekend ahead?

We've got some great #organic tips for October from soil management to fruit, herbs and flowers

Take a look here and don't forget to keep ... See more

Your Organic Garden in October October is the month of harvest festival. A time to gather in and celebrate your successes in all parts of the garden: and start to plan for next year! The end of the ... See more

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7 years ago

Just preparing the new harvest seed of the Golden Chard. What a pretty plant!

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7 years ago
Timeline Photos

The "Amanda" sweet peppers are incredible. Look, another huge harvest of fruit this morning! Seed from the first batch of these will be available online really soon. 🙂

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7 years ago
Photos from The Real Seed Collection's post

Here's Tam spending an afternoon this week deseeding the "Amanda" sweet peppers. We love the pepper harvest - we all get a huge bucket of peppers to cook with once the seeds are taken out!

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8 years ago
Photos from The Real Seed Collection's post

Amaranth! The Leaf Amaranth plants are flowering well now in the tunnel and it looks spectacular; they're about 12ft tall. New seed from them should be ready in late November.

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8 years ago
Photos from The Real Seed Collection's post

Bulking up our super tasty new bean Princess - in the field earlier in the year, drying in the tunnel - and the catflap we installed so that Thompson can get in and protect all our drying seeds even ... See more

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8 years ago
Photos from The Real Seed Collection's post

A fairly large Pacific Giant squash - 27kg!

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8 years ago
Photos from The Real Seed Collection's post

Squash harvest at Real Seeds! Here's Ian bringing in the hugely diverse Treugerat squash population. This is the start of a dehybridisation project; all these different squash came from seed in one ... See more

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8 years ago
Photos from The Real Seed Collection's post

A few photos from a busy harvest week at Real Seeds: Ian cutting the hedges back, Ben sorting the Special Swiss sweetcorn, a visit by the local Permaculture group and harvesting enormous sunflowers. ... See more

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8 years ago

We've been getting the squash harvest in now, and this is interesting - the one at the bottom is a Sibley that was harvested *last year* - yes, 12 months ago! Stored on the dresser in a cool room, ... See more

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8 years ago
Paleontology

This is why chemical farming is so wrong . Great timelapse photography of what happens if you remove all the organisms from the soil.

Bioturbation with and without soil fauna.

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