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#mymonthontheplot day 15 : On the ground - what a

#mymonthontheplot day 15 : On the ground - what a tricky subject! I finally decided on this photo, it doesn’t look like much but in fact it’s the end product of months of #composting. It’s full of #organic #matter, #microbes and #nutrients. It helps soil retain moisture and improves it’s structure. I do #nodig #gardening and #compost is key to it’s success. It might just look like dirt but it’s magical stuff. ⁣
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#sustainability #nature #zerowaste #compostable #compostbin #sustainableliving #compostingisfun #growyourownfood #composter #ecofriendly #organic #recycle #compostables #composting #garden

#mymonthontheplot day 14: I wish I had...thought a

#mymonthontheplot day 14: I wish I had...thought about where I’m going to grow all these beautiful #brassica #plants! Even with a large-ish #garden and half an #allotment plot I’m not sure I can fit in so many. Hopefully I can find willing volunteers to take the excess. Anyone in the #Morecambe or #Lancaster district want some? ⁣
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#seasonalvegetables #ilovegardening #growyourownfood #growyourown #fromgardentotable #growtoeat #vegetablegarden #hoard #organicfood #gardening #growwhatyoueat #organic #organicgardening #lovegardening #homegrown #gardeninglife #kitchengarden #whenwillIlearn #gyo #growvegetables #growyourownveggies🌱

#mymonthontheplot day 13: Just for me. I adore the

#mymonthontheplot day 13: Just for me. I adore the purple colour palette, I don’t think there is a shade I dislike. So when I spotted these stunning #anemone’s on the @farmergracy website I just had to have them. I am utterly useless at sowing #bulbs, I buy them with the best of intentions but then they languish in the packet waiting for me to do something with them and they usually end up getting stuffed in the ground or in a pot far too late. Not this time though. I want to have these beautiful #flowers growing this year, so yesterday, after only a week of looking at them in the box they came in, I soaked and planted the #anemone #corms. They are currently in my greenhouse waiting for it to stop freezing overnight and hopefully doing their thing. I’m very excited about them and hoping they grow well for me. Photos from the @farmergracy website as two galvanised buckets of compost don’t really look like much at the moment!
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#anemonesflowers #summerflorals #anemone #growsomethinglovely #flowersofinstagram #flowersmakemehappy

#mymonthontheplot day 12 : Gorgeous - I’m back a

#mymonthontheplot day 12 : Gorgeous - I’m back at work today after a week off so was struggling to think of something for today’s post. However, as I went down to the #greenhouse I noticed just how gorgeous the #blossom on the #bullace looked against the blue sky. This has absolutely no filters on it, all natural. ⁣
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#springblooms #blossomtree #naturelovers #naturephotography #flower #bloomingtrees #springflowers #flowers #springmood #nature #springbloom #spring #springflower #blossomwatch

#mymonthontheplot 11 : Defences - we made this bra

#mymonthontheplot 11 : Defences - we made this brassica cage from some old #greenhouse staging and insect netting. It’s worked really really well. This bed is still covered to keep the #cats off it as it’s going to become my #asparagus bed

#mymonthontheplot day 10: Herbs - I love growing #

#mymonthontheplot day 10: Herbs - I love growing #herbs, they smell fantastic and are so useful. I grow #bay, #mint, #chives, #marjoram, #oregano, #sage, #thyme, #lemonverbena, #hyssop, #lemonbalm, #rosemary, #parsley, #basil, #chamomile, #bergamot and #wintersavoury. I use them for teas & flavouring all the time BUT unfortunately I seem to have lost a number of the woody Mediterranean herbs over this severe Winter especially my thymes and sage. I’m growing a number from #seed but I will definitely picking up some replacements.

The #soilriddle works really well, it makes a love

The #soilriddle works really well, it makes a lovely fine but not too fine #compost which still has some texture and the really big sticks that are left behind are going to go through the #shredder to be used as a #mulch on the amended borders.⁣
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#sievingsoilisathing #sievingsoils #riddlemethis #homemadecompost #composting

This afternoons #diy task - make ourselves a #whee

This afternoons #diy task - make ourselves a #wheelbarrow sized #soil #riddle for #sieving #compost. We have a small hand held round one that is OK for small amounts but when you’ve 3 #compostbins to empty is just a tad small! ⁣
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#sievingsoilisathing #sievingsoils #riddlemethis #homemadecompost #composting

New #raisedbed all planted up with 3 types of #ras

New #raisedbed all planted up with 3 types of #raspberries and under planted with #strawberries. We used #compost and #manure over well wetted cardboard to fill the bed a la #nodig ⁣
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#allotmentlife #vegetablegarden #allotmentgarden #nodig #growyourownfood #kitchengarden #allotmentsofinstagram #nodiggardening #nodiggarden #allotment #growyourown #homegrownfood #organicgardening #raisedbeds #gardening #growyourownsoftfruit #growyourownfruit

#mymonthontheplot day 9: Supports - I was going to

#mymonthontheplot day 9: Supports - I was going to get all mushy and talk about my gardening-hating beloved who always goes along with my mad schemes but I couldn’t get a photo of him today that I liked, so I’m going with my #beanarch instead. I built this last year after falling in love with #cattlepanelarches & being disappointed that we don’t have them easily accessible here in the U.K. I grew #runnerbeans, #pumpkins and #cucumber on this last year and it was a great success. We’ve still got #beans in the freezer waiting to be eaten. It was easy to make and looks really pretty covered in foliage. ⁣I’m planning something similar up at the #allotment
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#archedtrellis #archedtrellisgardening #archedtrellisgrowing #archedtrellises #beantrellis #verticalgarden #arch #arches #raisedbeds #raisedbed #raisedbedgarden #gyo #growyourown #growyourownfood #growveggies #organicfood #urbanfarm #thegoodlife #gardener #gardenersofinstagram #growsomethinggreen #organicproduce

#mymonthontheplot day 8: Companion - these tiny li

#mymonthontheplot day 8: Companion - these tiny little seedlings are two of my favourites to grow as companion plants for my #tomatoes. #Tagetes or #frenchmarigold as it’s more commonly known is great for its distinctive smell that whitefly hate and #calendula or #potmarigold attracts predators and pollinators as well as being useful for making #salves and #teas. I’ve chosen fancy F1 varieties this year as I’m not planning to save any seed from them and they look really pretty grown under my tomatoes. ⁣
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#herbalistsofinstagram #mindfulness #higherself #herbalism #medicinalherbs #naturalhealing #herb #herbalmedicine #companionplanting #companionplants #gyo #growyourown #growsomethinglovely #gardenersnorthwest #lancashire

#mymonthontheplot day 7: Fill a space - we are sti

#mymonthontheplot day 7: Fill a space - we are still building the #raisedbeds at the #allotment but there was a space at the front that wasn’t quite wide enough for a standard 3ft bed but was still wide enough to be useful. So today we have built a 12ft long narrow bed and lined it with cardboard ready for all my #raspberries to go in. I’m planning to grow 3 different types in my bid to have a multicoloured bowl - I have #Valencia, which is a summer fruiting apricot pink colour, #AllGold, which is an autumn fruiting gold colour and American black raspberries which is obviously black. I also have standard red at home. I’ll be under planting with #strawberries
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#growraspberriesgrow #growfruit #growyourown #allotmentlove #allotmentgarden #gardenlife #berries #growfood #raspberry #garden #organicgardening #growyourownfood #growyourownfruit #gardenersofinstagram #homegrown

#mymonthontheplot day 6: Gadget - I love a #gadget

#mymonthontheplot day 6: Gadget - I love a #gadget and I’ve got lots of things I love to use but honestly this label maker has been a revelation. I detest writing plant labels out and if you can still read what it is by the end of the season, it’s a miracle. I also love things labelled so combining the two has been brilliant and it’s easy to reuse the labels each year. Even the paper based labels last really well

#mymonthontheplot day 5: #Community - I’m really

#mymonthontheplot day 5: #Community - I’m really missing the opportunities locally to go to plant fairs and seed swaps that this time of year is usually full of. I, like many #gardeners sow far too many #seeds and end up with a surplus of #plants (especially #tomatoes ), so I usually get to redeem myself by giving away a few different types or selling them in aid of a local organisation. Hopefully this will be something we can do again soon. In the meantime, this picture is of some quaking grass that I grew from some seed I picked up at a seed swap a few years ago. I love the shapes of the seed heads it forms #gardenersnorthwest #gyo #growyourown

#mymonthontheplot day 4: New Life - we are still w

#mymonthontheplot day 4: New Life - we are still working in the #garden rather than up at the plot and today I spotted my #peonies poking through the soil and mulch. They spent much of their first year in pots as I never quite got around to plantjng them so I’m delighted that they are coming up. Fingers crossed we get some flowers 🤞#growsomethinglovely #peoniesofinstagram #peoniesinthegarden

When your #bees have decided that the damp pot of

When your #bees have decided that the damp pot of heeled in #raspberries, waiting to go upto the #allotment, are their current favourite water source but you have an idiot #dandiedinmontterrier who thinks that chasing the spicy sky raisins is great fun! @georgethedandie #beesonthecoast🐝💤 #gardenersnorthwest #beekeeping #bees🐝 #beesofinstagram

#mymonthontheplot day 3: Decoration - this one is

#mymonthontheplot day 3: Decoration - this one is a bit of a struggle as I never think my #garden or plot is ‘done’ enough to do the decorating bit and add twiddly bits. So I’m going to use an old picture of my garden that I feel shows it looking particularly pretty. I love the #poppies in this.

We’ve been clearing back a lot of #ivy today at

We’ve been clearing back a lot of #ivy today at home. It’s a very pretty variegated type but it’s so invasive and had formed huge great clumps on the top of the fencing. We left it over Winter because of the amount of creatures that make use of it but it was blocking a lot of light to the garden and especially the #bees 🐝 so it had to go. #springgardening #somanyweeds #willmybackholdup #clearingivy #gardenersnorthwest

#mymonthontheplot day 2: #thehungrygap - all of ou

#mymonthontheplot day 2: #thehungrygap - all of our #leeks have finished now at the #allotment but I’ve still got a few in a #raisedbed at home that we are slowly consuming. I love leeks and how they just sit there over winter doing their thing ready for you to add them to a nice #risotto or #leekandpotatosoup or just use them in place of #onions. Brilliant veg, got next years already growing from #seed in the #greenhouse
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14 buckets of #potatoes in at home. I’m using th

14 buckets of #potatoes in at home. I’m using the 30L buckets this year instead of the flimsy plastic #potato sacks.

These are mainly 1st and 2nd Earlies plus a couple of main varieties such as #pinkfirapple. Still got the bulk of the #maincrop to do.

Unfortunately I got to play “guess which variety of #potato that looks exactly the same as all the other varieties this is?” thanks to a fat #tabby #cat that decided he must jump onto the freezer in the conservatory and knock off all my carefully organised chitting potatoes!

He’s not even my cat, he’s my daughters!
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