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@briar_farm @DomesticDervish Last year I used cardboard banana boxes to shade some plants while they got established, I don’t have running water on my allotment so very little gets watered.

@DomesticDervish Yep it’s a tough one but we’re building resilience where we can. Slowing the wind down to reduce dessication and getting some canopy cover def helps. Also looking at more perennials integrated into our beds

It’s been worryingly dry with no sign of rain on the horizon. It’s shaping up to be a fourth year of challenging growing. In addition to heavily mulching and integrating a tree layer, we’ve been updating our irrigation systems to cover the whole market garden in anticipation.

not just important, crucial -note how rapidly their bodies responded, in WW1 Denmark, neutral, could not import grain so slaughtered all but breeding stock, folk went onto brown bread, fruit & veg diet, in just a few years moved to lowest death rate ever, even reduced in very old folk

@StephenShelle20 @marktheman2010 I’ve started using smaller tools & honestly wish I’d done it sooner…my garden fork is tiny but it does the job & I’m enjoying gardening again.

@marktheman2010 It's frustrating not being able to do as much as we used to

A few hours on my allotment, a bit of light ho-ho-hoeing and some watering. I got home shattered. A fish finger and caper sandwich and straight to bed, dreaming of days I could hold a cricket crease for a century, box ten rounds or surf a wave the height of a pyramid. Old age.😡

@Commoninsense Two-Three-Four St. George is at the door…Happy St. George’s day 🌹

Happy St George's Day

I missed #EarthDay yesterday but for those still interested, here's a list of the sustainably sourced, locally grown & naturally dried timber I stock. Ash, Cedar, Cherry, Elm, Holly, Oak, Lime, London Plane, Sweet Chestnut, Sycamore, Walnut, Yew. Mother nature at her best

Why am I donating potatoes? 🥔 Last week I was happy to finally receive the second trade order this season from my merchant. To put it into context, we normally start selling our potatoes around Christmas, and fulfil a weekly order from this point on, moving around 13 tonnes a week. So to have waited 5 months to be able to sell any of my potatoes was a huge relief because although we have had so much support from our local customers and now further a field, we’re still limited to what I can deliver in my truck and through the post, and this has been putting a huge financial strain on our business. Collection day came and the buyer cancelled. So I’m left with 12.5 tonnes of potatoes bagged and ready to go, with no way of selling that volume through my local and postal channels. Because they have been bagged and out of the store, they now have a limited time (around 2-3 weeks) before they will start to soften or sprout (if left in the bags). The alternative is having to open every bag (500 of them), re-box them to go back into the store and hope for the best, or I will have to dump them. This year has been devastating for me and so many farmers. We plan our crops more than a year in advance and couldn’t have predicted how badly the potato market would fail. I am trying my best to stay positive and adapt, but the pressure is crushing. So this brings me to my post earlier. Out of my disappointment, I want to do something good and donate these potatoes to genuine charities and organisations who I hope can distribute them to people in need. Lots of people have commented on my previous post, but in order to get these to the right people I need you to email me at farmerlukeshop@gmail.com so we can manage the requests without them getting lost in the comments. Thank you to those who have already reached out. These potatoes are not being given away to be re-sold or planted (due to seed regulations) I just want to put some kindness out in the world. Thank you to everyone for your support, You can order your posted potatoes now at: farmerluke.co.uk 🥔📮 #FarmerLuke #DownOnDaintreeFarm #Mrsfarmerluke #spudwife

If there’s any charity’s or food banks that would like some potatoes donated please! Get in touch! I don’t really wanna see theses potatoes go to waste! Email Farmerlukeshop@gmail.com Shares and tags would be really appreciated! 🥔🚜 Thank you to everyone for your support, You can order your posted potatoes now at: farmerluke.co.uk 🥔📮 #FarmerLuke #DownOnDaintreeFarm #Mrsfarmerluke #spudwife

@Mr_ian_B Which type?

I'm cooking pasta

@GuGi263 Yes when I was a child…playing with a wild animal that is so easy to catch is cruel and not something I’d expect an adult to do.

Ever seen a mole digging a hole? Well, here you go. Pretty cute too...

@dresserman Will it contain sell by date & get stopped at till/scan your own if out of date? Be interesting to see how it works. Dates on sausages was something I complained about often when I merched for Tesco.

No surprise to anyone that Tesco are first to the 2D barcodes.

Plans for a new Lidl supermarket on the outskirts of Okehampton have been thrown out over concerns it would negatively impact the High Street and road safety. radioexe.co.uk/news-and-featu…

Seriously worried about the lack of rain now. It’s like last year….

@oldstocky Sorry but I disagree…I prefer the big light :-)

I am once again calling for the complete and total shutdown of big light

2 English Walnut boards, cut from a tree that grew on the banks of the river Thames, in Kingston upon Thames, just a few hundred feet from Hampton Court Palace. A timber merchant in Halifax has been trying to buy these for the last 7yrs, he wants to make a resin river table!

Birdsmoorgate. From deep river valleys to the ridgetop of the Marshwood Vale. #dorset #history #birdsmoorgate tessofthevale.com/2026/04/20/bir…

The perennial #herbs are starting to keep me busy. Today I've been harvesting lovage, oregano, tarragon, sage and thyme. The mints are almost there too

A botanical "Holy Grail" find! 🌸💎 We’ve spotted the incredibly rare Mezereon blooming in the Peak District ravines. This stunning native shrub is a true indicator of ancient, high-quality limestone woodland. A proud moment for our #NatureRecovery team! 🌿✨ #RareBotany

Does anyone know what these are in this moss?

@Commoninsense I might buy myself some roses to mark the day🌹

Thursday is ST GEORGE'S DAY, Is anyone planning to celebrate?

@mariejane2020 Yes I remember going with my mum she would buy hand knitted jumpers & reuse the wool, I can remember that if you saw something you liked you had to watch it wasn’t snatched out of your hands before you could buy it…could be quite a scramble :-)

Who remembers being taken to Jumble Sales, ours was in the local community centre ❤️