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
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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
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At the Real Food Garden we’re mad about producing food that’s high in nutrients and bursting with flavour. For that we need soil that is oozing with good health and so we love seaweed. Over that last month we’ve been applying seaweed joyously to our brassica beds ready for the first plantings in a couple
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