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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.

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Planting potatoes - one of the various no dig methods which involves making a joke trowel depth (just as you would to plant a pot grown plant) and earthing up with compost. My first earlies went on a few weeks ago, today I put in all my second earlies, main crop and some funky coloured ones I’ve saved from last year’s harvests as can’t remember if they are second early or main crop! Ideally I plant them successionally, first then second then main, in order of harvesting. But when it became clear that I would need to have my student children (and their hollow legs!) home for longer and earlier than expected this summer, I bought some more first earlies just before lockdown. To plant, I lay the potatoes in rows on the surface and pop the labels in before planting. Next, make a hole trowel depth and put the potato at the bottom. As I finish each row, I make a little mound over the buried spuds with the surface compost & a trowel. These beds haven’t been mulched with compost because until recently it has rained for months! So over the next few days I will add more compost to the beds. The last frost date here is mid-May so I’m also protecting the beds with card, weighed down with stones until I’ve mulched. This won’t stop the potatoes growing but will be added protection should I not be able to get to the allotment as planned. I now have 2 1/2 beds of spuds - should keep my children fed for a while! If you don’t have seed potatoes it is fine to use sprouting spuds from the veg basket. You may not know if they are first earlies or main crop but you’ll get good meals still - once they have flowered is usually the time to harvest potatoes (first earlies are a bit different but don’t worry / you’ll just get bigger spuds) . . #nodiggarden #nodig #growpotatoes #gardeningtips #allotment #allotmentlife #growyourownfood #growyourown

Harvesting the last of the overwintered beetroot before planting potatoes at the allotment. These were multi-sown in May 2019 into modules and planted out in little clumps and I’ve been harvesting them for all of this time! Over winter I spread fleece as protection. Harvesting them now because they will bolt soon and I need the space! . . #multisownbeetroot #growyearround #allotmentgarden #allotment #allotmentlife #growfoodnotlawns #growfood #organicgardening #organicallotment #nodigallotment #homestead #homesteading #homesteadinglife #gardeningtips

Pricking out! This is how I prick out seedlings from seed trays or pots into modules. Using a small pencil as a tiny dibber, I make holes in the middle of modules filled with compost. The compost is firm, I really pack it in with my fingers, and then watered. Plants like firm compost and this helps to make transplants that don’t fall apart when planting out. Next I use the pencil to loosen the soil around the seedlings so I can lift each one out. Holding it carefully, I gently place the roots into to hole using the pencil tip. The seedlings is buried up to just below those two leaves and the soil firmed with my fingertips. The seedlings can now grow on until they are big enough to plant out or pot on. These are chilli seedlings so I’ll be potting them on in a few weeks. They are in the greenhouse on the warm heated mats, to keep them frost free during these cold nights. . . #prickingout #howtogrow #howtogrowvegetables #growyourown #growfood #gardeningadvice #growingyourownfood #growfoodnotlawns #gardeningtips #allotment #allotmentlife

Change in the weather today. In the deer park @thenewtinsomerset taking our daily exercise & picking up groceries at the Farm Shop.

Tomato seedlings growing in modules in the greenhouse, on heat mats. I grow a lot of tomatoes! You can sow tomatoes now. They need warmth to germinate and protecting from frost. If you don’t have a heated propagator, use a sunny windowsill in the house. These were sown in seed trays and then pricked out into modules, choosing the healthiest plants. When they are approx 5cm I’ll choose the best of these for potting on into 9cm pots. They’ll remain in the greenhouse, protected from cold weather. These tomatoes will be ready to plant into the polytunnel in early May and into pots outside in mid-May. I do a lot of home preserving which is why I grow so many different varieties. I’m also sharing the surplus plants with friends. I’ve had these module trays for 6-7 years & they were second hand when I bought them from a local garden centre’s “bargain bin”. You can make your own out of newspaper or by cutting a loo roll tube in half. . . #growingtomatoes #growingtomatoesfromseeds #growfood #growyourownfood #growyearround #homestead #homesteading #backyardhomesteading #smallscalehomesteader #allotmentgarden #allotmentlife #allotmentuk #growyourownveggies #howtogrowfood #growfoodnotlawns #gardenblogger #gardeningtips

Gorgeous sunshine filled walk today with my son Theo along the river and through fields around the small town where I live, Bruton. Very windy and cold!

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