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?

5 years ago

Phil jumping into a rhythm with the Broadfork!
Preparing a new bed for strawberries transplanting last year's runners.
So exited about these stawberries -
Its a crop that just keeps on giving!

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5 years ago
Frith Farm

26 week locally produced chemical free veg box
Medium box £10 p/w = £260 full payment
First box ready on the 26th June
Sign up on our website
Www.frithfarming.com
*workshare available* ... See more

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5 years ago
Timeline Photos

Few more box sign ups will help us invest in one more tool -
The power harrow allows us to prepare beds and improve soil structure
*Workshare for Monday/Tuesday available*
#bcs #powerharrow ... See more

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5 years ago
Photos from Frith Farm's post

Our first direct sowing of the season with the jang seeder & first transplant with the paperpot transplanter
*Sign up for your box only few places left*
*Workshare available*
#organic ... See more

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5 years ago
Photos from Frith Farm's post

Ostara - Spring equinox is here 🌱🌾🌷 First transplants & first new potatoes
Expect these beauties, plus much much more local goodness in our weekly boxes. Sign up now to secure your weekly ... See more

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5 years ago
WILD THING

AND THE WINNER IS.... Milly Rose👏! Please get in touch lovely yogi!
Everyone else deepest gratitude for spreading the word about our lovely retreat, we hope to see you there💕🧘‍♀️ ... See more

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5 years ago
Photos from Frith Farm's post

Huge thanks to our workshare members who make our farm unique 🙏
We prepared our polytunnel & our N/S salad terrace beds
Only few places left if you want to be a part of our workshare opportunity - ... See more

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5 years ago
Photos from Frith Farm's post

Thanks to Conscious Creations for those magnificent oak handles!
Pure joy testing the wheel hoe, one of the most ergonomic tools I've ever used!
This investment will definitely cut the hours spent ... See more

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5 years ago
WILD THING

Pay as you like to CSA veg box members

Yoga retreat, 18th of May (full moon)

Like & share & tag 3 friends for a chance to win a free place on our Spring Yoga Day Retreat🌸🌱winner revealed on the 20th!!

Join Wild Thing ... See more

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5 years ago
Photos from Frith Farm's post

• Like & share & tag 3 friends chance to win a free place on our Spring Yoga Day Retreat

Join Wild Thing Yoga and Frith Farm on the 18th of May for our Spring Yoga Day Retreat. Through energising ... See more

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5 years ago
Hunt in your gardens for slugs, RHS urges, amid worries beneficial British slug is being wiped out

Do you have any Yellow Cellar slugs in your garden? The RHS - Royal Horticultural Society are urging people to check their gardens.

Slugs play an important role in helping to break down your ... See more

Gardeners have been urged to pick up their torches and hunt in their gardens for slugs as the Royal Horticultural Society issues a plea for data on the disappearing British bug.

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5 years ago

🌟Congratulations Philippa Peate!🌟

You're the lucky winner of our Mother's Day competition in partnership with Naturally Good Food

We hope your mum enjoys her special treat on Mother's Day ... See more

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5 years ago

Join Norfolk Organic Group for their talk this evening - Learning the language of trees by Paul Jackson, starting at 7.30pm, £3 entry for non-members.

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5 years ago

The Organic Way #spring edition has arrived and is on its way to you!

Pop down those gardening tools, grab a cuppa and get reading! We've packed this issue full of exciting features & stories for ... See more

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5 years ago

With many parts of the country still experiencing frosts at night, it’s still too cold to plant potatoes. Wait a while and let the soil warm up.

Then create furrows just less than a metre apart, ... See more

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5 years ago
Weedkiller is removed from DIY store shelves

DIY store #Homebase has announced it is removing weedkillers containing #glyphosate from stores following the US court ruling that #Roundup was a 'substantial factor' in causing a type of cancer...

DIY stores have begun removing Roundup and other brands of weedkiller after a ruling in a Californian court found it was a 'substantial factor' in causing non-Hodgkin's lymphoma cancer.

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We've teamed up with Naturally Good Food to offer a fantastic treat for one special mum this Mother's Day.

The treat includes a beautiful Emma Bridgewater mug, calming chamomile infusion tea bags, ... See more

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5 years ago

Ready, steady, go!

The first day of spring has arrived and the sun has made an appearance - the new season is officially underway!

Keep us up to date with your progress...

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5 years ago
US jury rules weedkiller a cancer 'factor'

A US jury has found that one of the world's most widely-used weedkillers was a "substantial factor" in causing a man's cancer...

Jury to consider damages after one of the world's most widely-used weedkillers is blamed for cancer.

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5 years ago
One man & his organic plot - March 2019 | www.gardenorganic.org.uk

Catch up on the March edition of our popular blog -
One man & his organic plot...

Chris has returned after his adventurous travels to Sri Lanka and is gearing up for the spring! It’s all about ... See more

One man & his organic plot - March 2019 It’s all about the anticipation of spring for gardeners, whether your plant growing ambitions are just a small window box or if you put your shoulder to it ... See more

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6 years ago

Just preparing the new harvest seed of the Golden Chard. What a pretty plant!

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6 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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6 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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6 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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6 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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6 years ago
Photos from The Real Seed Collection's post

A fairly large Pacific Giant squash - 27kg!

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6 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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6 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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6 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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6 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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