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
The Big Healthy Lunch

Join us at the Move More Eat Well Big Healthy Lunch on Sunday 9th July.
A day full of family friendly activities - don't forget to bring your picnic!
#movemoreeatwell #active #healthylifestyle

Welcome to Move More Eat Well's Big Healthy Lunch! Bring your favourite dish to share with neighbours and family, be ready to moving more with some fun sporty activities and to eat well with tons of ... See more

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8 years ago
Timeline Photos

Are you experiencing #Rose black spot on your roses?

Rose black spot is rarely a killer disease; it just disfigures. Remove affected leaves and flowers, and put in the green waste bin for ... See more

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8 years ago
Opposition to neonicotinoid ban thrown out

Good news in the fight against #neonics and #pesticides

Opposition to neonicotinoid ban thrown out - from Horticulture Week

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8 years ago
Photos from Garden Organic's post

Our members experiments plants have all been planted out now and are enjoying all of the hot weather! ☀

In our display bed of plants with novel uses, the flax is producing a multitude of blue ... See more

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8 years ago
Garden Organic

We were joined this week by our Coventry Master Composters, delivered in partnership with Coventry City Council for an evening of DIY Wormeries.

Our group set to work making their very own wormery ... See more

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8 years ago
Garden Organic

Become part of our brand new project - Move More Eat Well​.

We have two Education Officer vacancies available, so if you're looking for an engaging part-time role then read on...

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8 years ago
Photos from Garden Organic's post

Happy #summersolstice ☀ what do you have planned for the longest day? #sunshine #gardening #happy

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8 years ago
Using water in the garden | www.gardenorganic.org.uk

Are your #plants a little thirsty? Follow our golden rules on how to use #water more efficiently in the #garden

Build up your soil with organic matter (compost, garden waste) which will help the soil structure to retain moisture. Especially if you have light sandy soil.

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8 years ago
Garden Organic

It was great to see family carers enjoying the beautiful surroundings at Ryton Organic Gardens last week as part of our Thyme To Be project.

Our group enjoyed harvesting salad which they had sown ... See more

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8 years ago
British Hedgehog Preservation Society

Don't forget to pop some chilled water out tonight for your prickly friends 💦

Share if you will offer some water for hoggys tonight in this blistering heat - send pic of your #hedgehogoasis

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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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