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

Secure Your Local Seasonal Veg!

Only last few veg boxes are available for this season.
Your first box will be ready on the 26th June -for 28 weeks until the end of the year.

Support your local ... See more

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6 years ago
WEA Yorkshire & Humber - North & North East Lincs, Hull & East Riding

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We need more local producers to create a strong food network, in order to eat like Kings & Queens. This has been our mission from the start: to inspire people to become part of this ... See more

Grow your own sustainable food business

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Saturday 23rd March 10.30-2.30pm

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To enrol please call 0300 303 3464
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7 years ago
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Well this is exciting! 🍓 #strawberry #strawberries #chemicalfree #handpicked

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7 years ago
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Hello seeder! Cutting edge yang seeder from Korea. 😍 #frithfarm #seeder #yang #permaculture #horticulture #handtools #csa #seeding #cultivate

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7 years ago
Timeline Photos

Fresh flowers 💐 #flowers #permaculture #horticulture #csa

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8 years ago
Photos from Garden Organic's post

It was impossible to pick just one picture for today's #mondaymotivation so here are a selection from the wildflower meadow - it's looking glorious in the sunshine!

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8 years ago
Photos from Garden Organic's post

We've had a fabulous four days at BBC Gardeners' World Live. Thank you to everyone who came to see us, including our valued members. We hope you enjoyed the stand as much as we did - our display of ... See more

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8 years ago
Wonderful Wormeries | www.gardenorganic.org.uk

Join us on 27th June for a fascinating introduction to the wonderful world of worm compost.
Wonderful wormeries will give you all the know how on what you need to get your very own wormery up and ... See more

Worm composting uses worms to create dark crumbly compost from your kitchen and garden waste. It is a great method of recycling organic waste from homes where kitchen waste is the main material to be ... See more

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8 years ago

Who's watching BBC Gardeners World this evening?

Such a fantastic celebration of 50 years and great to look back and see the changes throughout the years.

What are the things you remember?

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8 years ago
How to make Comfrey tea

Do you have comfrey in your garden?
You can use #comfrey tea to feed your tomatoes 🍅 It’s easy to make, costs nothing, and provides the perfect balance of #nutrients, #nitrates and #phosphates ... See more

Chris Collins, Our Head of Organic Horticulture and David Garrett, Sustainable Communities Manager are here to show you how to make the perfect liquid food f...

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8 years ago
Timeline Photos

Adam Frost shares his stories of working with the fabulous Geoff Hamilton at Barnsdale Gardens with the BBC Gardeners' World audience

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8 years ago
Photos from Garden Organic's post

Our worms are causing quite a stir at BBC Gardeners' World at the NEC today - if you're at the show make sure you come and say hello, we're near the Gardeners World Live Theatre

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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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