Trill Farm Garden

Trill Farm Garden We are a 5 acre market garden run by Kate Norman, Ashley Wheeler and the garden crew.

We specialise in growing salads, herbs and vegetables for restaurants and our box scheme. We also run a range of horticultural courses and offer an advisory service. We are a 2.5 acre Market Garden specialising in salads, herbs and vegetables

The big yellow bags are back out as the seed harvest begins. Brassica seed crops are starting to ripen, so they need h...
11/06/2026

The big yellow bags are back out as the seed harvest begins. Brassica seed crops are starting to ripen, so they need harvesting and drying further in the tunnel, hanging up in these big yellow bags.

Coordination of steps is key to getting the bag out of the tunnel without stepping on other crops. Colour coordination is advised, though not essential.

This is Rouge metis mustard for Winnow Farm Seeds | Ellen Rignell

Lots of tunnel work today - pruning the tomatoes and cucumbers along with some hoeing, taking down sugarsnap peas and mo...
03/06/2026

Lots of tunnel work today - pruning the tomatoes and cucumbers along with some hoeing, taking down sugarsnap peas and mowing to make space for basil, summer purslane and more cucumbers. It's been difficult to get all the tunnel work done over the last couple of weeks because of the heat, so it's been a relief doing it in cooler conditions.

Good things so far this season - tunnel crops are looking healthy and ahead of schedule, salad successions have been good, making salad harvest quick, dry enough to get ground prepped in plenty of time and getting crops planted before they've outgrown their modules, sugarsnap peas have been good and the outdoor ones are looking great, loads of ladybirds, sunny spring to keep our spirits up, we had plenty of spare tomato plants to replace dead ones.

Bad things this season so far - squirrels eating the lettuce, voles eating all the broad beans just as they're ready to harvest, broad bean flowers terminating (too hot?), lots of blackfly (but oh the ladybirds), slightly too much work at this time of year has led to stingy eyeballs, tomato plants suffering from stem rot

Overall pretty good I'd say

Beautiful way to round off the Open Day - drinking a cider with this delightful sunset. The day seemed to be a great su...
31/05/2026

Beautiful way to round off the Open Day - drinking a cider with this delightful sunset. The day seemed to be a great success, the sun obviously helped massively, as did the delicious food from , and the lovely cider from and . Big efforts from the garden team all week and always in getting the garden to such a good place, making it bountiful and beautiful, and big thanks on the day to everyone, especially Ruby, and

Thanks to everyone who came along - we really appreciate all of your support!

We have over 100 people booked onto our Open Day tomorrow, and the garden is looking great for it! The sun is going to ...
29/05/2026

We have over 100 people booked onto our Open Day tomorrow, and the garden is looking great for it! The sun is going to be shining, there will be great food and drink and you'll be able to enjoy a tour by one of the garden team. You'll also be able to go home with some plants for your own garden.

It's been an intense couple of weeks, working in the heat, w**ding the shallots on the black mypex, with the heat bouncing back at us, training the tomatoes in the polytunnel on the hottest day, planting kale that almost turned to crisp as soon as it hit the ground, along with the harvests picking up and the hoeings and sowings. It's been a couple of very long work days on a row, my eyes are stinging with tiredness, but I can't think of any better way to spend my working days.

We hosted a great group of growers on our Spring and Summer Salad Growing Course last week. We covered everything from ...
25/05/2026

We hosted a great group of growers on our Spring and Summer Salad Growing Course last week. We covered everything from crop planning, successions and variety choice to propagation, bed prep, planting, w**d control and harvest.

Here are some of the varieties that are going into the mix at the moment. We grow varieties that are suited to the time of year, so we are moving away from the mustards and salad brassicas, which love to grow through autumn, winter and early spring, but get damaged by flea beetle and just want to go to flower through the summer. There are lots of other leaves that would rather grow through the summer, so we chose those instead, and then get less pest and disease pressure as the plants are happier.

We've planted the squash, now that the night time temperatures have risen, the soil is damp and the wind has died down,...
22/05/2026

We've planted the squash, now that the night time temperatures have risen, the soil is damp and the wind has died down, hopefully they'll establish well and we'll get a long summer of sunshine to ripen them. We are still using mypex to grow the squash through in the hope of reducing the couch grass burden - it was extremely effective last year, and as we rotate the squash around the field, this w**d control method will move around too, and hopefully in a few years we'll have the couch under control.

We'll plant some sunflowers in amongst the squash in a few days too, which will hopefully distract from the horror of the plastic...

I'm trying out drying some edible flowers to see if we might be able to offer them through the winter months. Anytime i...
22/05/2026

I'm trying out drying some edible flowers to see if we might be able to offer them through the winter months. Anytime interested, before I keep harvesting them??!!

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Trill Farm Garden, Musbury
Axminster
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