Fairy Hill Market Garden

Fairy Hill Market Garden Small scale : No dig : Vegetables
Organically grown
Wildflower woodland
Compton Dando

.The last of the outdoor seedlings for the season 🌱 were planted out today—just in time for the first summer downpour. T...
28/08/2025

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The last of the outdoor seedlings for the season 🌱 were planted out today—just in time for the first summer downpour. Timing!

Autumn crops—fennel, radicchio, salad leaves, mustards, leeks, chard, and herbs—are now thriving, bringing a flush of fresh colour and texture to the beds. Summer ain't over just yet. Meanwhile, winter tunnel propagation is well underway, and before long the tunnels will be completely transformed.

.When you’re doing something every day, it’s easy to lose track of just how much things have changed—it all becomes a bi...
07/07/2025

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When you’re doing something every day, it’s easy to lose track of just how much things have changed—it all becomes a bit of a blur. Here are a few snippets from May and June.

Market gardening is all about adaptability, formed from a strong plan, shaped over winter. As plants grow and the weather does its thing, it’s the daily planning, observing, and constant adjusting that keeps everything moving forward.

Summer brings continual tweaks as the conditions shift and change, an imperfect jigsaw puzzle on the ground and inside my head.

A seed tray might end up composted because you couldn’t plant it out in time, or you might lose a bed to weeds because you had to abandon one task to save something else. I then hear my old boss saying it's okay, it's not blood...but it is food.

The patterns repeat and evolve over time. You learn when you’re most productive and try to shape your day around this and by the way cheese scones with clotted cream and jam are compulsory. But, not as necessary as PLANT DIVERSITY, you've got to keep the wildlife happy!

Thank you and the summer of we got this!!

.S P R I N G. That magical time when the sun teases us with warmth, the weeds wake up and the nights remain cold. S P R ...
05/05/2025

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S P R I N G. That magical time when the sun teases us with warmth, the weeds wake up and the nights remain cold. S P R I N G. Every seed tray you touch feels like a high-stakes game of horticultural roulette. S P R I N G. When enthusiasm and chaos combine.

S P R I N G 2 0 2 5 specifically ' The irrigation game ' .
Outside in the market garden the beds are almost full.
spinach, salad, chard, celery, kale, beans, lettuce, beer (typo) beets, onions, herbs, garlic, courgettes, squash

The lower tunnel is packed full of hundreds of tomatoes and the other - sugar snaps, lettuce, cucumbers, beetroot, beans, fennel, peppers, and much more to follow (bed relay). C O L O U R S.

Bring on summer ⛱️

The biggest t h a n k y o u to all the loyal customers keeping us going through winter, new customers, seasonal customers ------ The market garden on top of Fairy Hill would not be able to continue without you !! -------

A gentle general nudge : Support your local growers

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