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Hello! I’m Stephanie, welcome to my website No Dig Home.

I’m a professional organic no dig kitchen gardener, plant based cook, award winning author and writer, small scale homesteader and mum of three.

In my blog I share my gardening experiences (the successes and the disasters!), recipes for plant based food, crafts and natural products for home and garden. And some of my adventures and outings too!

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Today I sowed some microleaves for adding extra vitamins, colour & flavours to meals. These are easy to grow indoors in almost any container. You can use a repurposed tetrapack with one of the sides cut out for example - handy for indoors as it’s waterproof! I’m growing these in the greenhouse so I used a seed tray. After filling the tray with compost and patting it down firmly, I made grooves with my finger and sowed the different varieties in lines. They’d grow fine sprinkled about too. Cover with compost and keep moist but not soaking wet. They should sprout within a few days and be cropping in about a week or so. Maybe longer as it’s turned cold and gloomy here. I used microleaves seeds from @sowseedsltd, who had gifted me some to try out. You can use all kinds of seeds, they don’t have to be special microleaf ones, including dried peas from the larder, mustard seeds and old packets of brassicas (cabbage, kale, etc), herbs or salads. Don’t use seeds of plants whose leaves we can’t eat such as tomatoes or aubergines - we don’t want any poisonings!! . . #microleaves #growyourownfood #growyourown #containergardening #containergarden #growfood #homegardening

Aubergines, chillies and peppers happy in the greenhouse, on a heated bench. I cover them with a large sheet of pre-used bubble wrap at night, which is just as well because I woke at 2am this morning and remembered that i had left the greenhouse window open, rescuing a bee. Almost went outside to close it in my pjs, but it was so cold and dark .... Lovely sunshine again but a cold wind. Great day for getting the laundry done!! Today I am sowing microleaves and potting on the Nine Star Perennial Broccoli

Today I’ve been planting brassicas into one of the beds in my front garden: cabbages, summer purple sprouting broccoli, calabrese, cauliflowers. They were sown a few weeks ago into a seed tray and then pricked out into modules to grow into healthy transplants. After clearing the bed of everything except some over wintered spring onions and coriander, I made holes with my dibber and popped everything in. There’s quite a lot of space between the plants now, ideal for intercropping with catch crops such as the herbs I sowed yesterday, when they are big enough, or lettuces, radish and spring onions. It’s going to be very chilly next week and these plants came straight out of my cosy greenhouse into the ground, so I’ve covered them with thermal fleece. In a couple of weeks I’ll remove that and cover the bed with butterfly netting to protect against butterflies and birds. Now is a good time to sow brassicas for summer and autumn cropping. . . #nodig #nodiggarden #nodiggardening #growfoodnotlawns #growfood #growyourownfood #growyourown #organicgardening #allotment #allotmentlife #allotmentgarden #allotmentuk #growfoodathome #growyourown #homestead #homesteading #backyardhomestead #gardeningtips

It’s gorgeous weather and every morning when I open my poly tunnel I also open up my Vegepod. It’s looking gorgeous! At the moment I have mesh and polythene covers on: two layers helps to keep things warmer during the cold nights. It’s like a mini-poly tunnel. All of these veggies were planted in November and I’ll be clearing most of them later today or tomorrow (and eating them) to make way for spring sowings and plantings. I’ve got strawberries and herbs growing in planters underneath. This area is concrete! The vegepod was gifted from @vegepod_uk_ireland and I’m trying it out. I’ve had it since November 2019. . . #growyearround #vegepod #vegepoduk #growfoodnotlawns #growyourown #organicgardening #containergardening #containervegetablegarden #containerveggies #gardeningexperts

Sowing herbs in the sunshine today, some into modules and others into seed trays for pricking out the healthiest seedlings later on. This helps to make the most of the greenhouse space: I can fit 16 varieties into one seed tray! The module sown herbs will be planted out as little transplants when they are about 4-5cm tall. I sowed 2 seeds into each module - dill, coriander, purslane. Also some watercress and chives into larger pots. Then picked some kale, carrots and coriander from the poly tunnel. . I’ve had the trays and plastic labels for years. . . #nodiggarden #propagation #growyourown #growyourownfood #growfoodnotlawns #homestead #homesteading #backyardhomestead #allotmentlife #backyardhomesteader

Can you guess the identity of this oh so sweet plant I have overwintered & is now flowering in my bedroom? This plant is 4 years old now.

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