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Hi everyone! I’m Bryony. I'm passionate about grassroots organic sustainable growing, and I find inspiration in my garden, nature, food, and literature. When I'm not out in the garden you'll find me in my kitchen! xx

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Homegrown tomatoes! 🍅🍅🍅 I never got to grow much on my allotment this year (see my previous post if you missed why) but I did start my foray into growing in my garden at home. 👩‍🌾🏡 I live in a normal suburban house, with a normal postage stamp-sized garden, and so I've had a huge amount of fun working out how to continue growing my own in these more everyday conditions. 🧄 One of the things I did was to get a vegepod (@vegepod_uk_ireland) which proved to be excellent at providing me with salads. 🥬🥕 I also experimented with vertical growing, on shelves and up trellises, managing to grow herbs, sweetpeas and achocha. ⚘🫑🍒 And I leaned quite heavily into container growing - hence the tomatoes you see here. It was a disappointing crop, but did anybody get a good crop of tomatoes in this washout of a summer?! If you did I give you full permission to brag in the comments below, I want to hear about what you did that worked! 👇🏿👇🏽👇🏼

I've been holding on to this one for a long time, but the time has come. It's hard to know how to say goodbye to a place that has given so much in formative personal development, somewhere that nurtured my stomach and my soul, somewhere that showed me who I was. The allotment was a place I found myself, in every possible sense of the word. When I took it on in 2014 I had no idea how much enrichment I'd recieve from my little patch of earth - it seems no matter how much enrichment I deposited into it in the form of well rotted manure or carefully homemade compost, the allotment had a magical habit of always giving more back. I found a love of making things grow there, a love of nature there. I found myself there in some of my lower moments, without really knowing how or why I had come, and always the allotment carefully tended me, whispering calmness into my bones, drawing me, dream-like, further and further into its quiet world. Pick this raspberry. Tend this dahlia. Sit down here among the pumpkins to meditatively pull weeds and watch as the robin skips hopefully closer.

First snow! I woke up to a thick blanket of white over everything, which was a nice surprise and always makes the garden look magical. Although it makes gardening somewhat difficult when I can't get in my greenhouse (swipe to see why)! I wouldn't mind if the snow stuck around for a few days but it's already melting. Have you had snow where you live? ☃️

My seed order came! Swipe to see a few of them 👉👉👉

Create your own simple and eco-friendly seed planting pots using nothing but a pair of scissors, newspaper and a pot dolly! 📰🌱

Is #throwbackthursday still a thing?? 🤣

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