Ben The Grower - Ben Thornton

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Sometimes the garden does the best planting all by itself 🌸💚This beautiful little self-seeded anemone has appeared right...
03/09/2026

Sometimes the garden does the best planting all by itself 🌸💚

This beautiful little self-seeded anemone has appeared right outside the polytunnel door, and I absolutely love it.

I definitely wouldn’t have chosen this exact spot for it, but somehow it works perfectly — leaning into the doorway, covered in pink flowers and making what is normally just a practical part of the allotment feel so much prettier.

I’m a big believer in letting some self-seeders stay exactly where they decide to grow. Not everything in a garden needs to be planned or perfectly positioned. Sometimes the unexpected bits end up being my favourites.

Needless to say… this one is staying! 🌸😂

Harvested my first melon the other day 😍🌿🍈 Can’t sleep tonight heads on overdrive, final couple days of Malvern show gar...
02/09/2026

Harvested my first melon the other day 😍🌿🍈 Can’t sleep tonight heads on overdrive, final couple days of Malvern show garden design before the deadline!

So I’m going to see if this melon is actually edible 😅🫣🤞🏼

Took mother to the allotment to check on the chickens… somehow came home with 3 baskets full of homegrown fruit & veg 😅🌱...
31/08/2026

Took mother to the allotment to check on the chickens… somehow came home with 3 baskets full of homegrown fruit & veg 😅🌱💚🙌🏼 Not bad for an hour’s work!

Safe to say the allotment is well and truly in harvest mode now 😂🍅🍆🥒 Probably about the same to harvest tomorrow!

This is not a post I was expecting to be writing, but I may be a little quieter on here for a while 💔In the space of jus...
31/08/2026

This is not a post I was expecting to be writing, but I may be a little quieter on here for a while 💔

In the space of just two days, I’ve sadly lost both my grandad and my oldest brother.

I wasn’t particularly close to either of them, so I don’t want to pretend this is something it isn’t, but it has still affected me in ways I probably wasn’t expecting. There’s a lot going around in my head at the moment and I’m still trying to process everything.

It’s made concentrating on anything pretty difficult too. I’m currently in the final few days of getting my Malvern Flower Show garden design and application finished, with the deadline now only days away, and even focusing on that has been a struggle.

But I’m trying to keep going and put my energy into something positive. If anything, the last few days have made me even more determined to make this garden happen. I’ve put so much into it already, and right now I think having something positive to work towards is something I really need.

I do have content pre-recorded from the last week or so that I still want to share with you, so you will still see me popping up on here. I’m just struggling to find the headspace to sit down and get everything edited at the moment.

So if I’m a little quieter, slower replying, or you see me posting something recorded before all of this happened, that’s why.

Also, a little note for anyone waiting on a soap order — everything is running slightly behind at the moment. I’m hoping to get my head into things later today and start getting through them. Thank you so much for being patient with me.

Hopefully, bit by bit, I can get my head back into everything ❤️

Thank you for understanding and for all the support.

Thinking of naming this little lady Dorothy 🥹🐥 She’s gone far too long without a name, and today that changes! 🐓😍I think...
28/08/2026

Thinking of naming this little lady Dorothy 🥹🐥 She’s gone far too long without a name, and today that changes! 🐓😍

I think Dorothy really suits her… what do we think? 👀💚

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Just look at this selection of eggs 😍🥚When I dropped Mr Bean off at his new home, I also picked up this incredible selec...
28/08/2026

Just look at this selection of eggs 😍🥚

When I dropped Mr Bean off at his new home, I also picked up this incredible selection of hatching eggs.

There are some seriously exciting breeds and crosses in here…

🥚 Gold Laced Barnevelder
🥚 Marsbar
🥚 Cream Legbar
🥚 Silverudd’s Blue
🥚 Black Copper Marans
🥚 Black Copper Marans × Silverudd’s Blue
🥚 Marsbar × Black Copper Marans

I mean, look at those colours! 😍 From pale blues and greens through to those gorgeous rich, dark chocolate browns.

And it gets even more exciting when you think about what some of the girls could eventually lay — the Marans × Silverudd’s Blue offspring should lay olive eggs, while the Marsbar × Black Copper Marans could give me deep olive or brown eggs, sometimes even speckled. 👀🥚

I already can’t decide which ones I’m most excited about! 🐣

28/08/2026

Today was a bit of a bittersweet one! Mr Bean has officially left the girls and headed off to his new home in Cornwall. 💚🐓

Sadly we can’t keep cockerels here, and now he’s starting to find his voice 😅 it was time to find him somewhere he can live his best life — and I honestly couldn’t have asked for a nicer home for him. He’ll even have some new ladies joining him soon! 😂

But of course… I couldn’t come home empty handed. 👀🥚

We picked up the most BEAUTIFUL selection of colourful hatching eggs, which are now ready to go into the incubator! 🐣

I also came home with some quail eggs to try eating… although now I’m debating whether some might accidentally find their way into the incubator too. 😬🫣😂 Because apparently more chicks is exactly what I need!

It’s actually really nice having something exciting to focus on and look forward to over the next few weeks. Hopefully we’ll have lots of little new arrivals very soon. 🥹🐥💚

A massive thank you to Crewenna Poultry & Pygmy Goats for helping sort everything out and giving Mr Bean such a lovely new home.

Now it’s time to get that incubator running… 👀🥚🐣

27/08/2026

This drive will be fun 🫣🐓😅

27/08/2026

It’s time for Mr Bean to go to his new home 🥹🌱

From one tiny seed to this absolute monster… I think it’s safe to say he’s outgrown me 😂🫘

Time for Mr Bean to start his next chapter in his new home 💚

26/08/2026

One last feast for Mr Bean 🌿🐓
Before he moves to tomorrow.

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