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

We're delighted to announce the winners of our Abel & Cole cookbook competition.

🌟Congratulations🌟 to Anne May Close, Karen J Smith and June Saddington, you're our three lucky winners!

Please message us with your address and we'll get your new cookbook posted out to you 😀 ... See more

Do you have too much material in your #compost bin?

We suggest digging out your half rotted compost and bagging it up. Keep it damp, and by next spring it will have rotted down enough to add to your soil.

Leave a thin layer of rotted material in the bin to put the new stuff on – it will be full of #worms and other beneficial creatures.

As temperatures drop, keep the bin covered to retain as much warmth as possible. Take a look at our #composting guide for handy hints & tips: www.gardenorganic.org.uk/compost

If you find our information useful you could help us to continue providing this advice by donating just £2 to Garden Organic today. Please text TIPS17 £2 to 70070 to donate. Thank you 😃
#Fridaytip #composting #winterjobs #organicgardening ... See more

How's your #Monday going?

We would love to see pictures of your #autumn #gardens and #allotments. Please comment and share below...

#MondayMotivation #autumngarden #autumnalcolours

Honey tests reveal global contamination by bee-harming pesticides - Neonicotinoid insecticides are found in 75% of global honey samples and half contain a cocktail of chemicals.

Neonicotinoid insecticides are found in 75% of global honey samples and half contain a cocktail of chemicals

This week's #Fridaytip highlights how useful a good mulch can be for your #autumn & #winter garden.

As you dig up plants, and some die back, large areas of bare soil start to appear. Use organic #mulches to protect the soil and give it good structure for next year's growing season.

The best mulches are a thick, damp layer of straw, grass clippings and autumn leaves mixed together.

Take a look at our informative introduction to mulching. ... See more

Mulches are a labour saving trick which all organic gardeners can use. Garden Organic's Head of Organic Horticulture runs through different types of mulch an...

We've teamed up with Ebury Publishing and Abel & Cole to offer you the chance of 🌟winning🌟 a copy of their brand new cookbook - How to Eat Brilliantly Every Day.

If you love eating with the seasons, reducing food waste and whipping up creative, but simple to cook dishes packed with flavour then this cookbook is for you!

We have just three copies to give away, packed full of scrumptious organic recipes suitable for all the family!

To be in with a chance of winning all you have to do is like and share this post and comment #WIN below. ... See more

Neonics are still present on so-called 'pollinator friendly' plants in garden centres across the country.

Read our article highlighting the developments surrounding #pesticides in garden centre plants.

We need your help to continue to raise awareness of the threats to our #environment and vital #pollinators.

Text FFGO17 £5 to 70070 to donate to Garden Organic and make a difference today - thank you ... See more

How safe are garden centre plants? Sarah Brown unpicks the recent worrying research about pesticide residues in garden centre plants... In the last edition of The Organic Way, Judith Conroy discussed the issue of pesticides in Garden Centre plants. Since then, recent research from the University of... ... See more

A useful summing up of the issue of pesticide use, by Peter Melchett of the Soil Association

Following recent headlines and new scientific papers PETER MELCHETT of the Soil Association reports on the evolving dialogue around pesticides.

Our head of Organic Horticulture, Chris Collins has been out and about today talking to representatives of the National Allotment Society

Chris Collins talking to National Allotment Society reps and mentor about Garden Organic school programme. Lots of ideas to encourage future plot-holders!

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.
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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!