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The warm weather got my veggies growing like mad! 😃💚
#gardening #allotmentlife #allotment #growyourown #nodig #nodiggardening

June 19, 2025. We will have 400 grams of tasty fermented cilantro in several days. And how nice, it fit in one pint jar for the fermentation vessel. The cilantro is fresh from the garden and lush. The generous brine formed in a half hour. The garden cilantro grew rogue from a previous year’s planting. #minnesota, #fermentation, #nodig, #growyourown, #cilantro.

It’s a top view of a clear batter bowl with dark green cilantro and white salt. The scale and the jar of salt are at the top.

7 more raised beds put into place. I'm getting a lot of compliments about how quickly we transformed this weed-ridden plot.
#gardening #allotmentlife #allotment #growyourown #nodig #nodiggardening

Raised beds on my allotment plot, made of pallet collars, filled with compost, ready to be planted up or sown in.

In no-dig gardening, never leave soil bare! Keep it covered with crops or green manures like crimson clover in spring or winter field beans in autumn. After growth, chop & drop as mulch. This feeds soil life, suppresses weeds & protects structure. 🌱 #NoDig #GreenManure #SoilHealth

Made 4 more raised beds on our plot! We're getting there 😁💚
#gardening #allotmentlife #allotment #growyourown #nodig #nodiggardening

The gherkins and various climbing plants have got a proper natural jute cargo net to scramble up this year. They have no excuses now, so get climbing. #GrowYourOwn #HomeGrown #NoDig #Gardening #Allotment #NoDig

A growing bed on an allotment has an inverted V shape bamboo cane frame with jute netting for the plants to climb up. Some alyssum and poached egg plants have been planted along the edge of the wood chip path. A row of bush beans are also in the bed. In the middle of the bamboo structure are some courgette, patty pan and cucumber plants. The plants for growing up the netting are spaghetti squash, tortarello and carosello which are melon/cucumber hybrids, gherkin, tromboncino squash, The netting may not take the weight of all this but I’m not expecting the plants to all thrive where they are. It is shaded by a large apple tree for part of the day. The Apple tree is in the background.

A bamboo cane structure wrapped in a jute netting. One side of the net has gherkins, cornichons and tromboncino squash growing up it. The other has more gherkins and some czar and Greek gigantes beans. The frame has raspberries in front of it. Some cucumbers, patty pan and courgette plants are planted in the centre also.

Finally got an allotment last year after waiting eight years. Early days, but great to get some veg in the ground at last. :)
#allotments #gardening #nodig

Newly planted beds on an allotment with sweetcorn, kale, lettuce and rocket.

One of the beds planted up. #Allotment #Gardening #HomeGrown #GrowYourOwn #NoDig

A square ish allotment bed with a metal fence to deter the muntjac and other wildlife. Some mangetout and sugar snap peas, carlin peas, climbing french bean and sweet peas are planted to climb up the fence. Inside the bed are some chickpeas, tree spinach, Huauzontle aztec broccoli, dwarf french beans and clumps of sweetcorn. They have all been transplanted through a layer of compost and cardboard mulch. Bits of dislodged cardboard are lying on the surface. This area has had a lot of horsetail and bind weed coming up through the mulch. They are slowly being weakened by regular weeding.

Little break in the rain.

Split another trailer of firewood. Getting a bit muddy around the chopping block.

Hacked my way through the weeds around the potato beds. I've never seen weeds grow so fast, but then it has been raining a quite unreasonable amount lately, and this garden was abandoned wilderness until this spring.

A lot more weeds in the dig beds than in the hay covered no-dig, but the no-dig is much younger and only starting to sprout, so can't compare directly.

The long, thin volunteer maples I cut out of the fence have been made into poles for peas.

#Garden #Gardening #Homestead #Weed #NoDig #Potatoes

A piece of ground, well trampled and muddy brown from the same pair of boots walking back and forth a lot. There's a large chopping block and some logs laying on the ground.

A jungle-like garden with some unkempt areas in the back and a freshly weeded area with conventional potato beds. Further on the right, a hay covered area with no-dig potato beds. A few wooden signs declare various potato types. A head on a stick oversees the mess. The big potato bed has been freshly weeded by some maniac with a sharp tool. The weeds are chopped to pieces or separated from the roots and lay on the ground. The potato plants in between are of various sizes, with one row on the left virtually nonexistant, others big and healthy.

A small potato plant sprouting out between hay and straw. A small green plant (not potato) lurks behind.

A few maple sticks on the ground, one quite bendy from growing through a fence. They've been debranched and sharpened with a hatchet. Some rubber boots stand next to them.

First broad bean harvest of the year … they are delicious!
An organic variety called Ratio from one of my favourite suppliers, realseeds.co.uk
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#BroadBean #BroadBeans #ArtistsGarden #ImperfectGarden #garden #gardener #gardening #GardenPhotography #Artist #wolfkettler #permaculture #Photography #GardenWiltshire #WiltshireGarden #Wiltshire #GrowYourOwn #NoDig #VegetableGrowing #vegetables #vegetarian #organic #HealthyEating #HealthyFood #PlantBased #sustainable #vegan #HealthyLifestyle #HealthyLiving #harvest #WildlifeFriendly #PlanetFriendly #PollinatorFriendly #ecology #climate #ClimateChange #conservation #sustainability

This portrait format photograph shows a round, woven basket filled with broad beans in their pods. The basket sits on a green and white checked fabric placemat.

Bodemdiversiteit zorgt op onze kwekerij voor een goede balans tussen waterafvoer en water retentie. Ook hoeven we geen mest te gebruiken omdat het actieve bodemvoedselweb zorgt voor het voedsel voor onze planten. Plus omdat we niet ploegen scheelt dat heel veel tijd en energie die we elders kunnen inzetten (wieden bijvoorbeeld 😁). Ook hoeven we geen gif te gebruiken omdat we een diversiteit hebben aan planten, beestjes, schimmels en bacteriën en dat maakt de planten sterk en weerbaar (geldt volgens mij ook voor mensen en hun omgeving) #Gifvrij #NoDig #NietSpitten #Biodiversiteit #Biologisch #DeBodemIsDeBasis #DoeEenBosNa #Natuur #Bloemzaden #BloemEnOogst

Images in a French book on vegetable gardening from 1976 (Le Jardin Potager). Yearly digging was the norm.
#nodig #nodiggarden #nodiggardening #alotmenlife #gardening #vegetablegardening #growyourown

We're struggling with the water a bit lately. So dry. The IBC and waterbutts are slow to fill. We have been keen for a while now to follow the advice to try not to use the chlorinated tap water on the beds directly, so we leave it to de-chlorinate at least a couple of days. And just haven't been able to keep up with our needs really.

So I have been shopping. One 10" filter holder, an activated charcoal filter for it, a cheap water meter (I'll test its accuracy later), plus some various fittings I have lying around and a good old spool of PTFE tape.

We have water flowing now, hopefully of a somewhat less genocidal nature viz a viz our community of friends in the soil.

#allotment #nodig #gyo

A transparent-blue housing water filter with a garden tap with green hose coming off it on the left and a meter sticking out of the right with a grey garden hose plugged into kg.

May 23, 2025. We have trouble in the garlic bed, send help. A dozen consecutive plants are twisted and discolored. They were not visibly ill yesterday. The next rows are healthy at this time. The soil temperature is 55 F, 13 C. Nematodes and thrips are suspected. We sprayed three rows with neem oil this afternoon. We have a four year crop rotation. #gardening, #garlic, #minnesota, #nodig, #nematodes, #thrips.

Two garlic plants with yellowed leaves with green edges. The plants are twisted. The background is leaf mulch.

Chopped some wood today, because that's a different muscle group from the sore one.

Then some pointless mowing, because I still need more mulch to cover the former mud pit. And I could barely see my little fir trees anymore.

Also mowed around the no dig beds for weed control. That works well.

First potatoes in the dig beds have sprouted, along with loads of weeds. Seems at least some survived the night frosts and drought and now that it rained (a lot) they got going.

What didn't work was mulching the stupid virginia creeper infestation in the orchard, because its creepers grow just below the surface. Need a flail mower for that or something.

#Garden #Gardening #NoDig #Potato #Homestead #Mowing

Edit: Forgot the creeper photo

No-dig bed covered with hay. Nothing growing there yet apart from some weeds at the edges. Someone mowed the grass and weeds all around the bed to a short mulch.

Small potato sprouting out of some moist soil, along with lots of other stuff all around. Its furry leaves are just unfolding and are a deep green.

Back of the garden with some big old apple trees and old bee hives. Someone forced a poor household lawn mower through the mess of virginia creeper, small shrubs and various weeds. The mowed areas are now flat and covered in lots of brown/green mulchings. Alas, tendrils of virginia creeper still attached to the roots are everywhere in between.

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.

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.

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.

#NoDig question: Is it essential to have #compost boxes of >1m3 under some roof? Does anyone know how well or worse #composting _in-place_ works?

Accepting the less-than-nice look, and expecting lots of kitchenwaste during Summer, I wonder about putting up a row of composts right where the beds shall be next Spring. This would have the benefit of not having to move all the material to and fro the edge of the garden.

#permaculture

@Broadfork @Irisfreundin. Thank you for the details about phacelia. The garden can use more green manure, pollinator habitat, and frost killed plants. #greenmanure, #nodig.

#Nodig

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