The Garden Gate

The Garden Gate Honesty box / farmstand selling homegrown fruit, vegetables, plants, cut flowers, eggs etc

Plenty of sweet peas out on the stall this week, this batch was sown in the autumn, overwintered and now ready for plant...
05/03/2025

Plenty of sweet peas out on the stall this week, this batch was sown in the autumn, overwintered and now ready for planting out in the spring sunshine! 🌞 🌱

Carnations and broad beans as well, again well hardened off and ready for planting out now.

Various other plants and seeds for sowing right now too, so come and have a browse at our honesty box on Babraham Road, Sawston, CB22 3DQ, and pick up some reading material from our free gardening library at the same time :)

Sweet peas and carnations - various varieties in 12cm pots, £2 per pot or 3 for £5

Broad Beans- various varieties in trays of 6, £3 per tray

The lettuces sown from our seed saving seed collection have now been potted on into larger modules and thinned to a sing...
01/03/2025

The lettuces sown from our seed saving seed collection have now been potted on into larger modules and thinned to a single plant per cell.

If you'd like to learn about seed saving this year there's still plenty of time to pick up one of our seed packs and sow along with us though - each pack contains four species of seed to demonstrate different seed saving techniques, pollination bags, marking twine, bags, labels and full instructions - available from our website: thegardengate.uk/shop

The lettuce variety is May Queen, which we've chosen both for flavour and because its a fast grower that sets seed reliably. In a few weeks we'll plant these out into the polytunnel, making sure for our seed crop to only plant those that are true to type - already we can see some of the red pigmentation that is characteristic of this variety

Our honesty box is on the road again today, all set up at Linton Village Hall with
01/03/2025

Our honesty box is on the road again today, all set up at Linton Village Hall with

One of our main goals this year is to continue reducing the amount of seed and potting compost we're buying in, both for...
21/01/2025

One of our main goals this year is to continue reducing the amount of seed and potting compost we're buying in, both for financial and environmental reasons, so I've been digging into our library for pre-1950s instructions on making potting mixes. Would you believe it didn't always come in plastic sacks...

This paragraph from Sutton's superbly terse The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers (1904) caught my eye - we shall be doing as we're told, taking time by the forelock and starting to prepare our seed sowing mixes this week.

I'm reassured to read that 'forethought of this kind is certain of an ample reward', so we'll see how we get on this Friday in Part 2 of our free series following our preparations for spring 😀🌱🌱

Looking for some reading material to help get your allotment or veg patch off to a productive start this year?Books are ...
18/01/2025

Looking for some reading material to help get your allotment or veg patch off to a productive start this year?

Books are to the mind what compost is to the soil, and here are four of our favourites to mulch away with!

And with Bookshop.org's Gift Card Giveaway, buy any book online through our store this weekend (Jan 18-19) and be automatically entered to win a £250 Gift Card!

Use this link here to be in with the chance of winning: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/thegardengate

Good luck and happy allotmenting!

Spring. It may feel a long way off in the January rain, mud, frost and ice, but as the days get longer a new growing sea...
17/01/2025

Spring. It may feel a long way off in the January rain, mud, frost and ice, but as the days get longer a new growing season is on the horizon.

Now is the time to get back in that potting shed and start preparing for a productive plot!

So join us over 4 weeks as we get our vegetable garden ready for spring. Each week we'll take a look at a job we are doing and a crop we are sowing right now to get ready for the new growing season.

Dust off those seed trays and join us in Getting Ready for Spring!



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