New Leaf Urban Farmers

03/07/2025

13/06/2025

Just pulled a plant go see what it looks like
There still about three weeks away. But these are some baby spuds. The flavour is subtle, sweet and slightly earthy (but in a good way).
These are purple rain.
Can't wait to try our Queens' potatoes.

06/06/2025

Cleaning up the 12m tunnel and the other 12m tunnel that was flattened by the winter weather.
We decided not to repair that tunnel and instead grow outdoor crops like leeks and scallions.
The peas are doing well. We left them grow too high and never toed them, so they are flopping a bit. But they are beginning to pod now, so they should be ready in three weeks or so.

Good day's work has gone into it, but it's another job ticked off.

06/06/2025

Growing well. This is Agretti or Monk's Beard.
We have it growing in the cucumber/extra tomatoes tunnel.

04/06/2025

Almost ready. The rain really helped to bring a flush of moisture from a dryish soil.

Should be ready in the coming weeks.

24/05/2025

They are growing so quickly now that they're almost overtaking the non-grafted tomatoes.
We are so busy these days that it's hard to keep up with everything. The tomatoes were left a little too long with any trellising, but I managed to get the worst row done today.
I have to more to do tomorrow but it should be much faster. Blight forecast for today, fingers crossed we'll be ok (potatoes).

23/05/2025

Garlic tunnel covered at last. Spacing is 6" but we had a few spots of rust....just on in time, hopefully. We sprayed with liquid soap (homemade) and sulphur (homemade) at 15ml per 10l of rainwater. Each ml of sulphur is approx 25% mixed with water. So the dose is actually tiny. Pretty much trace size. The liquid soap or is the JADAM Wetting Agent that sticks to the leaf and allows the sulphur to be used at homoeopathic levels. The soap traps the sulphur to allow it to work on the rust to sterilise it. At such low doses, it benefits the plant as a secondary nutrient.
We don't normally use it, but it's a tool in the kit to break out when issues occur. We'll monitor its progress over the next few days and reapply if necessary. We are so close to harvesting, and the bulb formation is only several weeks away now.
So, hopefully, this should stymie the spread. Also, the plastic will keep the garlic dry too and prevent further spread through moisture.
The rest of the photos are for the veg box scheme followers. We're pretty much on track. I'll email everyone over the weekend and inform you all of what to expect in the coming weeks and details of collection times at our city locations and at the farm itself.
We'll include some recipes too to give you ideas from our reliable friend chef .