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108d

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.

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110d

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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114d

Various climbing beans are in the ground and the allotment greenhouse is planted up. With some peppers, marigolds and basil still to be added. #GrowYourOwn #Gardening #HomeGrown #NoDig #Allotment

A bed of lilac phacelia flowers and comfrey
form the border to three growing beds of climbing beans and peas within their rows of bamboo canes. Some dwarf french beans are under a white enviromesh cover. There are several plants of many varieties of beans which mostly are grown for dry storing their beans. There are three mainstay varieties of climbing french beans, two butter bean types, four heirloom varieties of climbing beans from the heritage seed library, borlotti beans, three varieties of bush beans and also carlin peas and Latvian peas.

A greenhouse planted up with six tomato varieties, three cucumbers, aubergines and two melons. Four green ex-food waste recycling bins are now used for storing harvested rainwater at greenhouse temperature. They and a green watering can are in the centre path.

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134d

Some perennials or self sown annuals that need very little work.

Also some growing beds being prepped to be planted up probably a month from now.

One bed was broadcast sown with a varied mix of a whole load of different salad and root crops. #GrowYourOwn #HomeGrown #NoDig #Allotment #Gardening

Greenery on an allotment plot. A patch of self seeded phacelia in front, jostaberry bushes on the left and right with some tubs of sifted compost in between. In the distance is a patch of nettles, some raspberries and a greenhouse full of green manures.

Some growing beds on an allotment in the process of being hoed and weeded. The bed on the right has had phacelia biomass chopped and dropped on it. The other beds have been cleared. Green foliage in the foreground is of finished spring bulbs being taken over by comfrey, daisies, feverfew and red clover. The beds have sawdust and wood shaving pathways.

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196d

More free wood chip. The primary school down the road were having all their hawthorn trees chopped back. I asked the tree surgeons if they could drop it off on the driveway and they were only too happy to do so.

It will be ferried up to the allotments for mulching the pathways on plots. #Gardening #NoDig #Recycling

A big pile of freshly chipped hawthorn has been dropped off on a driveway. A brindle boxer dog is climbing up to the top of it.

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230d

Bed size: is 4ft/1.2 meter width better than 3 ft/1 meter? If you use a 4ft or wider bed, why - what benefits do you find?

I’m trying to figure out if it’s worth reconfiguring my #vegetable garden layout as part of a general path overhaul this year.

Thanks!

#gardening #allotment #nodig

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2y

Redoing the #introduction after moving server.

I'm Elias (he/him)

I run a small regenerative farm called Viriditas in #Catalunya (Entenc el català, hablo castillano).

I'm interested in regenerative agriculture, self organisation, federated food security #RegenerativeAg, #Anarchism, #Decentralization.

Especially looking for other regenerative farmers producing in dry climates to discuss best practices.

#Farming #RegenAg #RegenerativeFarmers #RegenerativeAgriculture #NoTill #NoDig

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1y

Been a while since the last PSA that we're running an #instance here at https://regenerate.social for practicioners and active researchers of #Regenerative methods like #NoTill, #NoDig, #HolisticGrazing, #RotationalGrazing, #Permaculture, #CulturalBurning, #CarbonFarming, #SustainableForestry, #Reforestation, and more!

Come on over if that's you!

Please boost so that other regen people can find us :)

#RegenAg #RegenerativeAg #RegenerativeAgriculture

Close-up of leeks seedlings in a polytunnel

Three boxes shot from above containing green peppers and red chilies

Long beds of brassicas

Close-up of chickens feeding

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2y

#intro-post cause that’s a thing we do.

I like making things and thinking about things.

#NoDig #Gardening of #vegetables, #berries, and sturdy flowers.

plants & chickens in the yard for #canning #FoodPreservation #SeasonalCooking #seasonalEating

Always active #knitting & various #fiberArts projects in “I’ll get to that sometime”

I rock at #facilitating groups & #holisticLeadership
Currently job in #UnitarianUniversalist #relationalStewardship

#PreemptiveRadicalInclusion

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2y

Interests...

#RegenerativeAgriculture
#RegenAg
#RegenerativeFarming
#RegenFarming
#SoilFoodWeb
#SoilHealth
#NoDig
#Ecology
#AgroEcology
#AgroForestry
#Biomimicry
#HolisticGrazing
#ForestGardening
#GrowLocal
#GiftEconomy
#WaterHarvesting
#Compost
#Humanure
#ClimateAction
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateChange
#KeepItInTheGround
#CircularEconomy
#Permaculture
#BiodiverstyCrisis
#NatureEmergency
#WellBeing
#GBF

#52ClimateActions
https://www.52climateactions.com

#MastodonTips https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_MuvgBivAQr-CO2UOEbcHidvtoxGagjeEXS3Vwn8ubA/edit?usp=drivesdk

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2y

Here is my #introduction

Hobby farmer that grows food, #roses, and #trees. My favorite tag here is #ThickTrunkTuesday

I came up with a #CompostAtHome bin solution to compost indoors at all times. Check the pinned post on my profile

#worms are my very favorite way to #Compost I feed them the content of my compost bins

I also have a #NoDig kitchen #garden where all the produced compost goes to mulch our beds

Do not ask who will fix the #Climate for you ask what you have done for it

@compost

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