Hello folks. Isn’t it lovely when winter finally fades, and the leaves come out and wave? The birds are singing, sun is shining, and it’s time for our green fingers to un-glove, and get to work. It’s just magical, planting a seed and watching it grow. We are incredibly lucky to be able to do […]
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Tunnel Love!
I wanted to blog here and personally thank some friends, the welly wangers (it’s meant to be endearing), for kickstarting me with getting the polytunnel up. It’s far from finished, but we at least removed some saplings that needed to be rehomed, installed lots of ground tubes, and got 1 hoop up! I’ll actually have […]
Grassroots Garden is now a C.I.C.
You heard it here first! We have finally become a Community Interest Company, officially. What this means is, we’re a company that doesn’t allow directors or employees to take dividends and siphon profits away for personal gain. Any and all profits are put back into the business, specifically to support the aims of the business […]
Hey Pumpkin!
Well I’d never planted any squash or pumpkin before, but now I’m intimately aware of just how far these amazing creeping plants want to spread! I don’t remember planting out many seedlings, but I ended up with a massive abundance of traditional ‘Jack O Lantern’ types, winter squash, and a strange one that I didn’t […]
Check out our first veg boxes!
We went picking the other night after a day of planting, fencing, faffing and planning, and counted 15 different crops that are ready or almost ready! I know that was the plan all along, so it shouldn’t have surprised me, but check out this veg box! There are a few more bits and bobs ready […]
Check out these tasty morsels!
I know it’s probably not that impressive for seasoned growers, but after we had a cold and rocky start to the season, it has been lovely to watch some of our veg grow. Check em out!
3rd Time Lucky?
Bert has been boring us again! Well, boring the ground with his fancy drilling rig. It’s the 3rd hole he has drilled, so all our fingers are crossed that this time, he hits a decent pocket of ground water. The 2nd hole, it was assumed, had a decent amount of water. It was one of […]
Rain, rain, come again!
This drought has been really frustrating. Especially so when we discovered the borehole was dry! Finally, we’ve had some rain that is now stored in the tanks, which can only mean one thing: waterslide! Oops, not that: planting out! Thank goodness for that rain! It has enabled us to plant out loads of kale, cabbage, […]
Milestones Everywhere!
Finally, we had a massive delivery of compost last week while we had a digger and a dumper for the hardstanding. It was by far the largest delivery we’ve ever taken. It was more than a series of trucks full of the black stuff – this is the whole basis of the market garden, and […]
Boring!
This blog post is about our bore hole. Our 82 metre deep borehole, that until this weekend, had a pump stuck at the bottom! Why was it stuck? I’ll explain that later. How did we get it unstuck? With lots of research, patience, and help from our friends. What a relief! When we first dropped […]