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A freezing cold day but the winter sun warms up the Polytunnel beautifully, perfect for clearing out, mulching up beds and reorganising, ready for the sheer amount of plants we are growing from seed this year! We cannot wait for Spring to fill up these bad boys to the max and see another awesome transformation that takes place inside! #growyourown #growyourownfood #vegetablegarden #organicgardening #polytunnel #growinginthesouthofengland #growingfromseed

The weather in sunny South of England is grim but luckily I've got summer in a jar!! 🌞 This is a mix of perfectly ripe, deskinned tomatoes from the garden in July and they really are going to make the best wintery stew for dinner 🍅🍅🍅 #homegrown #grownfromseed #eatwhatyougrow #gardentotable #preserving #organicgardening #tomatoes #organicfood

Nature is amazing💚 These Brussel Sprouts weren't Christmas Dinner ready but, this plant was decimated by the Cabbage White butterflies in summer and was left as a little stump, but it made a comeback despite not even having any leaves! We did give it Homemade Comfrey fertiliser full to help it go and it does sit on a bed of rotting wood logs! Im confident we will have a harvest if I can keep the pigeons off 🧐 #organicgardening #brusselsprouts #homegrown #growyourownfood #grownfromseed #growyourown #naturefindsaway #decembergarden #vegetablegarden

Summer is well past it but we did manage to get our first Ripe Passionfruit ❤️ woohoo! A new blog post is up! A review of our first summer with the Polytunnel. We were able to grow a whole new load of crops thanks to our wonderful new environment. Follow the link below for a little look inside.. https://homegrownandhopeful.co.uk/2019/11/17/first-summer-in-the-polytunnel/ #polytunnellife #growinginthesouthofengland #organicgardening #grownfromseed #growyourown #growyourownfood #sustainableliving #vegetablegarden #passionfruit

Tomato seed saving 🍁🍅💚 Can you guess which seed belongs to which tomato?! We've got roma plum, orange banana plum, big fat juicy salad, super sweet cherry red and lemonade! These seeds will stay inside the jar for 3 days before I rinse them from their jelly like embryo and dry them out. I collect all these mini jam jars from my local pub and find them to be rather cute seed containers! #seedsaving #tomato #growyourownfood #grownfromseed #growyourown #organicgarden #zerowaste #sustainableliving #autumncolours #organicgardening #homegrown #vegetablegarden

Sweetcorn kernal saving! 🌾🌾🌾 We picked a selection of cobs from summer harvest and dried them out in the garage for several months. Some of them got a bit of mould so we discarded them and this was the result! This variety is called double yellow and we love it!!! #seedsaving #organicgardening #sustainableliving #growyourown #growyourownfood #vegetablegarden #homegrown

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