Summer is now in full swing and between the weeding, watering and harvesting it can be difficult to step back and see the bigger picture. These aerial photographs taken recently, made us stop and think of what we had achieved, the challenges we’d faced and just how far we’ve come in the 8 months since […]
The view from above Read More »
For nearly five months now we’ve been nurturing our tomatoes to get to this point; a kaleidoscope crop of cancer fighting, sweet, succulent fruits that can be used in almost any meal. Tomatoes aren’t an obvious crop for Cornwall, they often suffer from blight in wet and warm summers, which are most here in Kernow.
There is a reason our logo is a pea pod. We love legumes. And for good reason. ‘Legumes’ is the collective name for peas, beans and other plants with pea-like features such as clover, lupins and you might even consider the lovely Cornish gorse or furze leguminous. These plants are special for lots of reasons.
We’ve all got a favourite Beatle, but what about a favourite beetle? The garden is currently teaming with life, including some beetles we love and others not so much. Not all beetles are born equal in a growers eyes. There are of course the much loved ladybirds but there are plenty of other beetles which
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It all started with a nettle sting. We’ve been busy fertilising our soil but not in the way most food is grown. To grow sustainably, organically and pragmatically we are using a range of sources of fertility that we recommend to any keen grower. There are three main nutrients that plants need, nitrogen, phosphorous and
Compost Tea Anyone? Read More »
All winter we’ve been hard at work creating more than 60 raised beds, and they aren’t finished yet! When we bought the patch of ground that is now the Real Food Garden it was scrubby pasture. Prior to that it had been a potato field and from the huge numbers of flint blades we find
To Dig or Not to Dig Read More »
It’s cold and wet but we are still planting at the Real Food Garden. January and February are a great time for taking stock in the market garden, for repairing and preparing. But amid making our no-dig beds and, preparing the polytunnel and maintaining our woods and hedges we are happily sowing seeds too. By
Planting in mid-winter! Read More »
