Hello Folks, Up on the farm we’ve been planting out salad leaves, lettuce and chard to keep our supply going through late summer. We’re also starting to plan sowings of the crops that will take us into the winter – with kale, chard and carrots to sow in the next week. Left Field Market Garden…

Hello Folks, Late summer is peak season for diverse salads, with lots of the Asian greens (and purples) that we started sowing around midsummer at peak productivity. As a result we have no less than 9 different types of salad leaf in our mixed salad harvest this week. Keeping with the Asian theme we’re also…

Afternoon Folks, In our greenhouse at Rouken Glen our tomatoes have been ripening in dribs and drabs in recent weeks – but after a few days glorious sunshine we’re starting to see a lot more red (and yellow in our “golden queen” and “yellow submarine” varieties) across all of our different tomato types. Similarly our…

Hello! We hope that you’re enjoying the new season veg as much as we are! Our market gardens, Left Field, Rouken Glen and The Croft are becoming very abundant. The first of the french beans, bunches of baby carrots and patty pan squash grown as locally as The Croft at Queens Park are available in…

Hello Folks, The most pressing issue on the farm at the moment is the weeds. They’re trying to take over and succeeding in places, having the advantage over many of our crops in this cool, wet weather. Now that most of our crops are planted out we’ve found the time to start fighting back this…

Hello Folks, After a warm few weeks we’re back to weather more typically associated with summer in the west of Scotland. Sunlight levels have dropped, meaning some of our crops have been growing more slowly than in previous weeks, including our salads and courgettes. On the other hand many of our crops, such as celery,…