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The compost area on the plot. The compost in the bays will be turned into the daleks to mature. More compost from elsewhere on the plot can then be added to the bays. #Compost #Composting #Mulch #Gardening #Allotment #NoDig

Four pallets and an old section of wooden fence make up two bays for storing compost. One bay is about a third full and the other is two thirds full of homemade compost. Three plastic daleks of compost line the other side of the fence section. One dalek has its lid off to reveal a full container of maturing compost. A 20 year old wheelbarrow and two planters of carrots are in front of the compost bays. One of the plot robins is standing on the back pallet seeing if there are any worms to be had.

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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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Green manures are growing and the autumn colour is starting in the hedge line. #Autumn #Gardening #Allotment #NoDig #GreenManure

Two growing beds on an allotment are separated by sawdust and wood chip pathways. Some windfall apples lie scattered on the plot next door. A green manure mix on the beds is slowly growing to feed the soil life until all but the rye grass will be killed off by the winter frosts. Low growing white alyssum flowers line the edge of the beds. One bed is partly protected by a black metal fence.

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View along a grassed pathway that divides an allotment plot on one side with a trained wild blackberry in need of pruning and a boundary hedge on the other. The common hawthorn in the hedge is yellowing while the guelder rose has already mostly turned red. Other species contained in this hedge are hornbeam, dog rose, field maple, dog wood, lime, wild cherry, wayfaring tree, lime, willow and hazel.

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It’s been a good day to move and turn some compost. #Compost #Composting #Mulch #NoDig

Two palleted compost bays are about half full. The bay on the right is of maturing compost. It has two planters of carrots in front of it. The carrots are covered by chicken wire to deter the badgers from helping themselves to a carrot buffet. The bay on the left has five downpipes stuck through it to enable air flow through the heap to speed up the microbial activity inside the heap. The downpipes will be removed tomorrow to leave the air holes in their place. Two heaps were moved from elsewhere on the plot to be amalgamated here.

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Nice autumn day for some plot r&r. #Gardening #Allotment #NoDig

An allotment plot with a chain link fenced bed sown with green manures in the front, a border currently with raspberries and white alyssum will have yarrow and daisies in there next year. A glorious red guelder rose is showing off it’s autumn colour in the boundary hedge line of trees. The red colour is mimicked on the plot by the Aztec broccoli. A blue shed is way down in the bottom corner of the plot. Broad beans or field beans will be grown over winter in the fenced bed.

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Front corner of a plot has a wood chip path bending around a curved growing bed with a wilting rhubarb on it in front of a metal fenced bed with a red huauzontle Aztec broccoli plant and some tree spinach inside it. A large bramble blocks the view further down the plot. A grassed footpath runs alongside the plot with a boundary hedge on the other side. A guelder rose is turning red. The tapped water supply for the nearby plots feeds into two round metal water butts in front of the hedge.

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A metal wheelbarrow with a solid tyre is upturned over two plumbers tanks of harvested rainwater. A tree stump seat overlooks a pond with orange marigolds, pink cosmos and white alyssum still flowering around the pond edge. A wood chip path circles the pond and disappears off to the right past a bramble that’s ready for a prune. More red huauzontle Aztec broccoli is in a growing bed that needs weeding. A netted framed bed is off to the side for growing winter brassicas or broad beans safe from pigeons or muntjac.

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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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This is my composting set up over winter. We are fortunate our winters are mild. The piles are unlikely to freeze.

The two palleted compost bays have been freshly turned.

Four compost Daleks contain maturing compost.

Another compost dalek recieves the weekly veg peelings and garden weeds with sawdust added over the top.

After taking the photos all the compost was covered or lids put back on to keep the rain off. #Compost #Composting #NoDig #Mulch #Gardening #Allotment #Solarpunk

Two compost bays are made from five pallets. Two pallets provide the back wall and three pallets at right angles make the left side, right side and centre divide of the two bays. Two piles of compost are dark brown. The left hand pile has three black downpipes down the centre line to allow air flow into the centre of the pile. The right side pile is older compost and is noticeably more broken down.

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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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It’s been six months since taking on the back half and three and a half months for the front half. Then to now photo comparison taken from the same spot. #Allotment #NoDig

An overgrown allotment plot in mid November. Yellowed leaves of raspberries dot around the front dominated with green fresh growing grass or the dead brown variety. In the distance the brown shed can be seen with its black square window. A sprawling blackberry bramble is halfway down.

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Same plot, in mid May. The ground has been cleared of undergrowth and largely mulched. Raspberry canes are in full leaf and bumblebees, honey bees and solutary bees are visiting often. Various bamboo cane structures are up to support climbing plants. A wood chipped central path follows past the blackberry now trained to posts and wires and down to a just visible extended blue shed. An orange bucket indicates where a container small pond is located. The only thing that’s been cropped from this plot so far has been an out of picture rhubarb but there will be lots of harvests to come.

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