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
Photos from Frith Farm's post

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
Attracting Wildlife to your Garden | www.gardenorganic.org.uk

Join us next month to learn how to attract #wildlife such as #frogs, #hedgehogs, #ladybirds, #birds and #bees into your garden or allotment. Beneficial wildlife is such an important pest control tool ... See more

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8 years ago
www.gardenorganic.org.uk

If you're concerned about the use of #pesticides, including #neonics and the #herbicide #glyphosate, and want to add your voice to the fight we would urge you to join our ranks by becoming a member ... See more

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

#Watering is important this month. Give your plants a good soak, in the soil not the leaves.
This is best done in the cool of the evening. Use rainwater to top up ponds; tap water can be too high in ... See more

July is the month when all the hard work pays off. Herbs and flowers are fragrant, and the soil rich with your home made compost. After the rush of May and June growth, you can relax a little and ... See more

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8 years ago
Large-scale study 'shows neonic pesticides harm bees' - BBC News

Full details of the latest study on #neonic #pesticide here.

The largest study to-date on neonicotinoid pesticides concludes they harm honeybees and wild bees.

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8 years ago
Don't bee alarmed but... - BBC News

Short film from BBC News explaining the worries around #neonics...

the pesticides we use are harming these guys.

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8 years ago
Photos from Garden Organic's post

Here are a selection of images from yesterday's #wormery course!

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8 years ago
Our Courses | www.gardenorganic.org.uk

Today's Wonderful Wormeries course is going really well. If you missed out, below are the details of our next few courses:
- Attracting Wildlife to your Garden - 20th July
- Growing Winter Veg - 3rd ... See more

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8 years ago
Photos from Garden Organic's post

Today's #mondaymotivation comes courtesy of the 'Georgia' squash flowers unfurling in the Kedar house - proof, should anyone still need it, that gardeners don't have to choose between a 'pretty' ... See more

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8 years ago

Another busy weekend #gardening! What have you achieved?

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8 years ago
Composting - The Alternative Methods | www.gardenorganic.org.uk

Would you like to make better use of your household kitchen and garden waste?

We can teach you all of the know-how on #composting, with our half day course coming up on 14th July.

You will cover ... See more

Most compostable kitchen and garden waste can be processed through a traditional compost heap or a worm bin. However it may be preferable to use different techniques to recycle specific types of ... 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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8 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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