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Some seeds drying on plates before storing and/or seed saving. #GrowYourOwn #HomeGrown #Allotment #SeedSaving #Solarpunk

Seven plates of heirloom seeds on a kitchen top will be moved to the windowsill to dry. The top row of three plates have a black bean called noir bush , some woad seeds, next to Jacob’s cattle gold bush bean which are gold and white in colour. The middle two plates are Latvian peas which are a lighter brown and Carlin peas a darker brown colour. The plate on the front left contains mostly a brown bean called bonne bouche with a dozen black and white ying yang beans, only two Madeira maroon beans and a dozen chickpeas. The last plate contains purple and white Jacob’s cattle bush beans.

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The home raised bed is sown with autumn/winter crops. (See AltText for the list of veg).

This bed will give us a diverse harvest of fresh leafy greens throughout late autumn, winter and into spring.

We’re lucky to have temperate winters in the UK but few growers make use of our climate. We harvest something virtually all year round.

Elsewhere we’ll grow autumn sown broad beans, field beans, onions, garlic, potatoes, autumn carrots, horseradish. Lots.
#GrowYourOwn #NoDig #HomeGrown #SolarPunk

A raised bed along the side of a house. It’s a rectangular box that’s netted with three doorways at regular intervals down the side. The door panels are also all netted. The net keeps out the pigeons and butterflies.

Each doorway opens onto a kneeling space where the entire bed in front and to the sides can be reached and worked without compacting the soil. The design is influenced by keyhole beds in permaculture.

It also means the beds can be worked without ever blocking the access pathway alongside the bed.

Some veg plants are growing in the beds: kale, cabbage, Chinese celery, bulls blood beetroot leaves, lettuces, kohl rabi, tree spinach, mooli, komatsuna, garlic chives, spring onions, radish. The beds have been sown with the following autumn/winter veg: Yorokobi pak choi, oriental pak choi, kailaan Chinese kale, winter spinach, green wave mustard, broccoli raab , land cress, giant red mustard, Wong bok Chinese cabbage, ischikrona bunching onions, golden frills mustard, cavolo nero kale, root parsley, Sicilian giant radish, green in snow mustard, chopsuey greens, Osaka purple mustard, mizuna, salsola okahijiki, scarlet globe, mibuna, purslane, winter radish, bekana Chinese cabbage. With garlic and Japanese wintering onions still to plant.

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If you’re in the UK and you are interested in growing and/or conserving heirloom varieties and supporting the Heritage Seed Library now would be a good time to join. See link below.

Their seed catalogue is out to members in two weeks.

“HSL members will receive exclusive access to over 150 rare varieties, including 14 brand new additions on Tuesday 18 November 2025.”

#SeedSaving #HeirloomVegetables #UKSeeds #Gardening #GrowYourOwn #SolarPunk #Allotment #HomeGrown

https://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/what-we-do/hsl

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I really like this allotment site. It’s friendly and it feels good to share. My plot neighbour left these in my shed for me. #Allotment #GrowYourOwn #GrowingCommunity

A handwritten note reads we borrowed your wheelbarrow to move some woodchip - I hope that’s ok. Here’s some chutney to say thank you. Harriet & Rémy. An overhead view of a jar with a red and white tartan designed lid is below the note and it contains a red plum and apple chutney. They can borrow my wheelbarrow anytime.

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The raspberry beds have been given a layer of wood chip, the cosmos is still flowering and the green manures are growing nicely. #NoDig #Gardening #Allotment #GrowYourOwn #GreenManure #Mulch

The back third of an allotment plot has two growing beds sown with green manure and two raspberry beds with a wood chip mulch. In the far corner is a blue shed open to the elements with no fitted windows. It is full of allotment paraphernalia that needs sorting out. Compost bays with bamboo canes stacked upright have carrot tubs protected with wire mesh in front. The trees beyond are slowly losing their foliage.

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A framed growing bed is covered with wire mesh to keep the worst of the wildlife out. It needs weeding but the field beans inside are just starting to show. A light pink and a darker pink cosmos are flowering on the outside corner of the bed. The rest of the next growing bed is sown to green manures and the last throes of some french marigolds.

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A curved growing bed protected with some green chain link fence has green manures growing inside with mustard being the dominant plant. There are broad beans, winter peas, vetch and clovers sown here also. The re are frosts forecast over the next week which will knock back most of this growth to enable the beans and peas to come through.

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177d

Bumblebees are on the blackberries and the sambucus nigra is showing off. #Gardening #Allotment #Bees #Pollinators #GrowYourOwn

A white tailed bumblebee with a yellow band on its abdomen and thorax is finding a lot to love about the wild blackberry flowers. The white flowers are on show with lots more flower buds getting ready to open.

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A blue shed in the background is partially hidden by a plum tree. A burgundy coloured sambucus nigra elder stands out against the green foliage of trees behind it. Its lighter coloured wide flower heads are clearly showing. Comfrey plants dominate the foreground underneath.

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Half of the raised bed at home. This is where we grow the majority of our salad crops in small quantities of cut and come again harvests.

I’ve tried to remember what we’ve already harvested from or are now growing in this bed so far in 2025 in the alt text.

The point being, it’s possible to grow a wide variety of food in growing spaces at home than maybe we think we can.

This is in southern England, zone 9a with a mild winter. #GrowYourOwn #HomeGrown #Gardening #NoDig #GrownForagedHarvested

About half of a raised bed of salad vegetables alongside a house wall. The bed is netted to protect crops from pigeons and cabbage white butterflies. Various crops are growing in the beds in small quantities with constant succession and intercropping where possible in the growing year. The bed is in full sun but the path to the side is in shade. A brindle boxer dog is watching on from the shadows. In 2025 this bed has already harvested or is now growing: carrots, cavolo nero kale, scarlet kale, red mizuna, mibuna, komatsuna, Wong bok Chinese cabbage, pak choi, tatsoi, mustard greens, sage, shallots, mooli winter radish, Spanish winter radish, green luobo radish, turnips, four types of lettuce, spring onions, Welsh onions, rocambole, chives, wasabina, rocket, broccoli, red cabbage, filderkraut summer cabbage, horn of plenty, red mustard, beetroot, beetroot leaf, lovage, skirret, babington’s leek, white onion, Chinese celery, tree spinach, Chinese amaranths, basil, parsley and summer radish.

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I finally got around to moving the compost pile for the first time in 6 weeks. I started making this compost in December and it’s looking pretty nice. It will make a good mulching compost for some of the beds next spring.

The hot compost has hit the red zone so🤞will continue to stay above 55°C for two more days when it will be turned again. #Compost #Composting #Mulch #GrowYourOwn #Gardening #Allotment

Two piles of home made compost either side of a plum tree on an allotment plot. Beyond the tree is a mini wall of comfrey which will be cut once it has stopped flowering. A selection of lidded dustbins are being used to store tapped water and allow it to chlorinate off. A wheelbarrow is next to the bins. The plot is surrounded by greenery. Trees and a hedge are to one side with trees in the distance. The compost piles are in the shady side of the plot. Sunshine hits the other side.

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A compost thermometer is in the red zone marked hot. The temperature is almost hitting 58°C. Grass and wood shavings make up the outer layer of the compost pile which the thermometer has been placed into.

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