Beautiful beets from Frith Farm!!!!

Exciting times!

Our 1st veg box collection will be ready a week tomorrow - for those of you already signed up, start getting excited!

For those of you who would still like to sign up, but haven't, we still have some veg box spaces available from 22nd July - get yourself signed up!

Benefits:
1. Chemical free
2. Hand picked on the same day
3. Grown for flavour - the FLAVOUR!!!!
4. Grown locally - support your local, small scale farm
5. Grown locally - trace-ability, low carbon footprint
6. need we say more?
7. OK then... top quality food, grown by people you'll meet
8. Get healthy

For more info visit our website www.frithfarming.com ... See more

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 value of adding leafmould to the soil. Plants are healthier, crop yields are higher, and pest/disease problems fewer.

Making leafmould is as easy as 1,2,3. Here we show you how...
#Fridaytip #leafmould #healthysoil ... 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 be used on any soil at any time of the year. It’s also perfect for seed and potting mixes too. Making... ... See more

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 coat pocket or in an old piggy bank, then please post them in to us on a piece of card: Garden Organic, Wolston lane, Coventry, CV8 3LG

We'll make sure they go to good use and we'll even recycle your cardboard! ... See more

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

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 the many benefits of becoming a member... ... See more

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 all about how seeds become trees! You can take your own potted veteran acorn away to grow at home! ... See more

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, leafmould, mulch and a bed with no treatment.

Do you use any of these methods on your garden or allotment?
What do you think works best?
#MondayMotivation #soilimprovers #mulch #manure #leafmould ... See more

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 secure your place please call us or book online. ... 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 from our gardens to make natural decorations. You will be shown how to weave your own willow wreath that... ... See more

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!

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 those pictures coming, we love to see what you've been up to in your own garden and allotments. ... 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 growing season also means a busy time composting crop remains, saving seeds and preparing your soil fo... ... See more

Huge fruit on Alistair MacGillivray's 'Pacific Giant' squash plant, about 70cm and still getting bigger - see the foot at the bottom right for scale! Don't forget we're running a free competition on this one - there's a £20 seed voucher for the person who sends in the most impressive photo of their results. ... See more

It's that exciting time of year when seed starts ripening thick and fast 🙂 Below are the first few umbels of Manchester Table carrot seed ready to harvest in the tunnel.

We've just harvested the tree onions - they're drying nicely in the barn, and we've got a few of the earliest ones packed up now.
http://realseeds.co.uk/onionsspecial.html#onts

We found lots of little baby lizards while we were clearing up in front of the tunnel - they move very fast, but one stayed still long enough for a photo.

Some of the flowers we've got growing amongst the vegetables on our fields at the moment - great for the bees, and some of them are edible too.

Everything is growing so fast right now. The edible lupin 'dieta' has set loads of pods. The seeds of this special variety are hopefully non-bitter and are cooked or pickled as 'altramuz'; a high yielding, fast-growing, nitrogen-fixing food crop. ... See more

Here's a fantastic photo of our Painted Mountain corn, just sent in by James Wilde of Invergowrie in Scotland. (And yes, he did grow it in a greenhouse to get it this early - but the outdoors one are just starting to make cobs now as well.) ... See more

Now how about this for a tomato colour scheme!

Pulleys are great 🙂

The water tower is finished - now all we have to do is figure out how to get the enormous tank on top of it!