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23d

These now to then photos are about three months apart.

November to February in our temperate UK winter climate.

The overgrowth is now being turned into compost.

#Gardening #GrowYourOwn #NoDig #Allotment #Mulch

An allotment plot with a dried grass mulched raspberry bed in the front, leaf mould mulch behind. Soil excavated from under the central path is mulching the beds either side. The only bought compost is the darker stuff on the right. Every other mulch material has been found for free. A orangey yellow hawthorn wood chip pathway runs down the length of the plot. Most of the no dig beds have been started now. There is a pile of shrub wood on the right with some untamed brambles behind. A boundary hedge runs down the right hand side of the plot. An old wooden shed sits at the bottom of the plot.

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First impressions of an allotment plot in mid November. It’s overgrown with some raspberry canes visible amongst the grasses and brambles beyond. A hedge on the right is still in leaf as are the background trees in the distance. An old wooden shed with a dark window is just visible at the bottom end of the plot.

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26d

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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47d

We had some actual sunshine today. I turned the compost, started a second heap, finally weeded the raspberry beds and added more fresh sawdust to the pathways. #GrowYourOwn #HomeGrown #NoDig #Allotment #Gardening #Compost

Two compost bays in front of a wooden shed. The compost pile on the left is just being started while the right side pile is slowly looking more like compost with each turn. A grey metal wheelbarrow with a black frame is upturned in the front.

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A half allotment plot with a wood chip mulch off centre pathway heading down towards an old wooden shed. Several growing beds either side of the path have been mulched with compost, leaves, wood chip or sawdust. Raspberry beds have been weeded and are awaiting a stable manure compost mulch. Two compost bays are in front of the shed. Beyond the shed is a plot that acts as a buffer between the allotments and a nature reserve. The buffer plot has been recently cut back.

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47d

Upcoming jobs before spring are to clear the overgrown front half plot and tidy up and re-lay a hedge along the boundary to the nature reserve. #GrowYourOwn #HomeGrown #NoDig #Gardening #Allotment

Some hedge clearing with piles of brambles and woody brash material that have been cleared out from the existing hedge. Three water butts are now visible. Two are metal and one is black plastic. The hedge was completely covering the back two butts. The front water butt is connected to the tapped water supply for the site. A hedge with top bindings forms the barrier between the nature reserve and the allotment site. The hedge was laid a few years ago. There is a lot of new growth that can be used to bulk up the hedge and promote new growth.

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The front half of an overgrown allotment plot. My shed is in the distance. The plot has lots of grass and brambles. Also hidden in there are some raspberries, other thornless soft fruit currently, pun intended, unknown maybe loganberries or tayberries, rosemary, rhubarb and red currants and now some recently added piles of woody material from the initial clearing of the hedge.

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62d

Nice sunny day for adding some fresh sawdust to the allotment paths. #NoDig #GrowYourOwn #Gardening #Allotment

An allotment bed with wood shavings and sawdust down as paths in an almost H shape. A wooden square with faded blue paint is the lid to the wormbox that’s buried in the ground. A greenhouse is to the left with some green manures in the beds. Next to that is a row of pruned autumn fruiting raspberries. In the centre bed there are two junior jostaberry shrubs with a compost heap in between them.

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Allotment beds framed with some freshly applied sawdust to the pathways. Low winter sunlight is hazing the picture. Two beds have some ryegrass green manure growing in them. One bed was sown with field beans in November but these have been picked clean by the local wildlife. Another bed has the residue of the leaf amaranths crop from last summer/autumn. Some houses are in the background.

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91d

A while ago I promised to do a writeup about #garlic growing. Here it is:
https://www.wolfkettler.com/blog/grow-your-own-garlic

#artistsgarden #imperfectgarden #garden #gardening #artist #wolfkettler #permaculture #gardenwiltshire #wiltshiregarden #wiltshire #growyourown #NoDig #vegetablegrowing #GarlicGrowing #vegetarian #organic #healthyeating #healthyfood #plantbased #sustainable #vegan #healthylifestyle #healthyliving #harvest #ecology #climate #climateChange #conservation #sustainability

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107d

A productive couple of hours spent up the allotment. The first go at weeding the raspberry beds and adding it all to the compost heap.
#NoDig #Gardening #Allotment #GrowYourOwn

The left hand side of a half plot is all overgrowth and raspberry canes. On the right hand side is a shed with a palleted compost area in front of it and dark compost of a no dig bed.

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A half plot of an allotment with a corner of dark compost of a new no dig bed, raspberry canes visible with the overgrowth stripped out. Leaf litter on the surface of a no dig bed in the foreground. Looking into the distance there is another no dig bed of dark compost, a compost area and a wooden shed with no window panes.

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A u shaped compost area made from six pallets that have been tied together with wire or black string. Fresh compostable material is piled up against the back four pallets.

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128d

The over wintering field beans and broad beans were sown today. The beds inside the fencing will be for harvesting. The other beds are for green manures or may just feed the mice or the muntjac.

The other green manures are doing well, cycling nutrients, feeding the soil biology and improving the soil and water infiltration.
#Gardening #Allotment #NoDig #CoverCrops #SoilHealth #GreenManures #NoBareSoil #RegenerativeAgriculture #Mulch

Five growing beds with leaf amaranths and alyssum snow pathways on the left, broad beans, two beds of mustard, phacelia, rye, vetch, peas and a bed of field beans on the right. The broad bean and field bean beds will have a thin leaf litter mulch added on top. Comfrey patches are growing in the front. Some couch grass is being suppressed underneath layers of sheep wool, cardboard and hessian.

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A bed of daisies in front with a caged perennial kale sitting in its own sheep wool cloud, a bed of green manures and a bed of red flowering leaf amaranths with comfrey in front. I can never grow too much comfrey.

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Inside a black fence are two beds mulched with dried hay grass. A living pathway of white clover and fresh cut grass is in between the two beds. The bed on the left has just been sown with a double row of broad beans. The bed on the right has just been sown with a triple row of field beans.

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152d

The Chinese and Japanese leafy greens are growing nicely for harvests through autumn and winter.
#GrowYourOwn #NoDig #Autumn

A netted raised bed is full of green leafy vegetables. A brindle boxer dog looks on from a pathway along side. The bed runs along a house wall which provides a little extra residual warmth. In the foreground are large radial leaves of mooli radish. The furthest away beds is sown to several leafy greens with ryegrass sown in between as a green manure.

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A raised bed from above with vertical rows left to right of various vegetables with alternating rows of ryegrass sown in between. The leafy veg are radish, komatsuna, lambs lettuce, Wong bok Chinese cabbage, tatsoi pak choi and red mizuna. There are horizontal rows of pak choi and bekana Chinese cabbage with some lettuce.

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170d

Hi all, Joining this platform as a place to share my gardening journey. I will be starting my garden from scratch after moving house this winter, and will be following organic, no-dig gardening principles. I'd love to connect with others that are on the same journey, so please say hi below and feel free to recommend others I should follow!

#organic #gardening #nodig

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208d

#introduction work on progressive local economic development and #communitywealthbuidling. I live in #Ceredigion in rural West Wales. Learning #cymraeg #SaySomethingInWelsh. Have a #nodig #vegetable garden #CharlesDowding method. Interests include #nature #biodiversity #cooperation #growing #walking #hiking. Terrified by the #climate and nature emergencies. Trying and failing to free myself from global capital and corporations, to live more kindly and more in balance with nature

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249d

Brought the #garlic in this morning. It's hung up in a spare room for the next two weeks. It will then be ready for storage and should last until very nearly next year's #harvest.

#artistsgarden #imperfectgarden #garden #gardening #photography #artist #wolfkettler #gardenwiltshire #wiltshiregarden #wiltshire #growyourown #NoDig #vegetablegrowing #vegetables #vegetarian #organic #healthyeating #healthyfood #plantbased #sustainable #vegan #healthylifestyle #healthyliving #MediterraneanDiet #boho

The photograph shows bunches of garlic hung up on a wooden rack. An old oriental rug covers the wooden floor.

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