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

#HelloOctober 🍁🍂
It's a new month and a new day - the colours outside are beautiful.
#MondayMotivation #October #autumngarden

From scraps to spuds - Take a look at how you can #recycle your roast dinner to make #compost for your #spuds!
#RecycleWeek #foodwaste #compost

If you only read one thing today, make it Alys Fowler's great article on why we should all be buying #organic #bulbs

Organic bulbs have been around for a while, but the choice was limited. The picture has just got a lot more colourful

We're proud to work with the Three Counties Traditional Orchard Project (TCTOP) to help protect ancient orchards in #Herefordshire, #Worcestershire and #Gloucestershire.

Read more about this great project... ... See more

Charity helps preserve ancient orchards When Garden Organic teamed with the Three Counties Traditional Orchard project to help restore declining orchards, something very inspiring happened. The UK has only a small number of ancient orchards, covering an estimated 94 square miles. These beautiful plo... ... See more

It's such a beautiful time of year, how is your #autumn garden looking?

If you bring any pots into the #greenhouse or conservatory check that they aren’t diseased, making sure there is no leaf curl, mottled leaves or mites lurking.

Once you have moved your pots take off the top centimetre of #soil and replace with #horticultural gravel. You can replace this with fresh #compost next spring.🌿

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 #organicgardening ... See more

Your Organic Garden in September September sunshine is special - golden and gentle. But the growing days are shorter, with dew drenched mornings and cool evenings. Now is the time to gather your harvest before frosts threaten. And save your seeds before winter sets in. See below for advice on soil,… ... See more

As part of #RecycleWeek we have a very unique and practical way for members to #upcycle The Organic Way once you're finished with it.

Why not have a go at making these wonderful baskets and pots. This creative idea has been sent in by one of our members, Caroline Coode

Thank you Caroline, we think they look great! ... See more

#simpleswitch No.10 - If you buy one plant this year, make it comfrey.

Why? Because you can make the perfect liquid fertiliser from its leaves, by just brewing them in water. Bees🐝and other pollinators will love its flowers too.

#simpleswitch #organicseptember #ChooseOrganic ... See more

Fantastic blog just gone up on the Agricology website written by Sally Cunningham about the value of growing non-traditional crops. We recommend you have a read!

David Coop: "It weighed a lovely 44kg, so we only just managed to lift it! As you can see, it made a truly impressive Halloween lantern, although it did take all night to carve it."

Jeremy Newson got 171lb with his and says "Hi Crew, here it goes—several photos to follow. Wonderful seed. Nearly 2 tons of squash and pkins off our patch. .. Our local hospice got £150 from guess the weight of the big pumpkin + £120 from the charity allotment jar." ... See more

Helen Pottinger broke her wheelbarrow 😮with her gaint pumpkin: "I planted one at my allotment and it weighed in at 7 and a half stone - or 105 pounds. I didn't know how we were going to lift it but eventually came up with the idea of enrobing it in an old sweatshirt, turning it upside down - and then two of us were able to lift it into the wheelbarrow by the arms! We managed to break the wheelbarrow in the process but did get it into the boot of the car and then used a saw to cut it into quarters back at home. So far, it has made 7 batches of soup, 6 pumpkin pies and a pumpkin and parsnip casserole = delicious! The remainder has been distributed amongst friends and neighbours and was very gratefully received!" ... See more

Another good Real Seeds Giant Pumpkin competition entry - a very fine squash by Annie Sax:

Real Seeds Giant Pumpkin competition - from Julie Bissell: "My Giant grew up to 48 inch circumference, 44kg of squash - the best photo I could get was of a Hokkaido squash next to it (my cats refused to pose for long enough!)" ... See more

We want to share some of the Real Seeds Giant Pumpkin Competition entries. This is from Rich, who says: "here is a picture of my 6 foot son and a pumpkin we grew together "😁

Seeds! Lovely fresh seeds! Get your new season seeds now... We just wanted to let everyone know our new 2018 Real Seed Catalogue is online 🙂
There are a very few varieties still waiting to be tested but almost everything is packed now; we hope you enjoy it.
(Delivery times? We aim to get them out to you within a week of ordering, but we get really busy January-March, so if you wait til then it can take a little longer.)
http://www.realseeds.co.uk/ ... See more

A catalogue of the very best vegetable seed for home gardeners, with interesting heirloom and heritage varieties. Guaranteed better flavour or your money back.

New season website almost finished - just a few things left working their way through drying and testing. In the meantime we've been harvesting yacon. The first few packs are available now, and we'll be packing up more this week.
http://realseeds.co.uk/unusualtubers.html ... See more

Last call for entries to our Giant Pumpkin photo competition! Send us a picture of your Pacific Giant grown from our seed; the winner will be the person with the most awesome photo, and the prize is £20 worth of seed of your choice. ... See more