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

Don't forget that this weekend is the start of our Open Gardens.

You'll be spoilt for choice this #summer with a selection of gardens open on dates in July & August.

You can help to support us this #weekend by visiting Knoll House & Laurel Villa - two beautiful Gardens in #Stroud. ... See more

This week's #weedywednesday plant is #Goosegrass,
also known as Cleavers, or Sticky Willy!

Many of you will be familiar with this particular #weed and its small hooked hairs growing out of the stems and leaves which latch on, giving the name Sticky Grass or Sticky Willy.

Did you know?
The roots of Goosegrass can be used to create a
permanent red dye!

Find out more about this #stickyweed here...

#weedywednesday #goosegrass #cleavers #weeds ... See more

Weedy Wednesday - Goosegrass (Cleavers) This week's plant in our Wednesday Weed series is Goosegrass, also known as Cleavers, or Sticky Willy. In this weekly series, we take a quick look at common garden weeds. How they grow, what benefits they bring to the garden, and how to manage them. Organic gr... ... See more

Garden Organic was full of excitement yesterday when we were joined by Shefali Oza for the live BBC Midlands weather.

If you missed it and the Blooms for Bees interview on BBC Midlands news with Anton & Coventry University, then you can catch up here!

Coverage is from 00:50-01:05 & 22:46.
#bumblebees🐝 ... See more

The latest news, sport and weather for the Midlands.

Tune in to BBC Midlands at 6.30pm tonight to find out from our expert Anton & Coventry University how you can play a part in helping our #bumblebees 🐝 Blooms for Bees

Shefali Oza from BBC Midlands will also be hosting the weather live from our beautiful gardens! ... See more

The fantastic work of our Food Growing Schools project...

"This gardening experience has helped both us and our families" - instead of goal posts, this school has potatoes! 🍏🍓🥔🥕

Would you like to attract more #wildlife to your garden?

We have a few places remaining on our practical course this Thursday afternoon - Attracting Wildlife to Your Garden.

Come along and learn more about what you need to do to
make your garden or growing space as wildlife-friendly as possible. #wildlife #bees 🐝 #butterflies 🦋 #ladybirds🐞 #BeesNeeds

To avoid disappointment please book online or call us
on 02476 303517 ... See more

Our #volunteers have been busy this Monday morning harvesting #veg & #flowers from the Allotment Garden &
Keder Greenhouse.

Vibrant tomatoes, sweet redcurrants and colourful sweet peas are just some of the goodies we have in our wheelbarrow!

We'd love to know what you've been harvesting...
#mondaymotivation #organic #fruit #veg #flowers ... See more

We are delighted to have four organic gardens open to the public this year. Frank's Cottage, Knoll House, Laurel Villa and Alderley Edge will be opening throughout July & August in support of Garden Organic.😃
Visit our website for further details. ... See more

For this weeks #fridaytip we are in the #greenhouse!

Leave doors and vents open day and night for good ventilation to discourage disease build up.

Nip off and destroy any diseased leaves on sight. Avoid wetting leaves when watering, to prevent mould and other spores germinating.

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 July July is the month when all the hard work pays off. Herbs and flowers are fragrant, and the soil rich with your home made compost. After the rush of May and June growth, you can relax a little and enjoy the fruits of your labour. See below for advice on soil, vegetables, f... ... 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!