Sam Corfield

the_hairy_horticulturist

To pinch or not to pinch? Firstly it’s not vital

To pinch or not to pinch? Firstly it’s not vital, however pinching out helps plants produce more stems and with veg this means more to eat. Over the years I’ve abused a fair few plants with my pinching skills and I’ve had mixed results! I’ve had much taller peppers with plenty of fruit from I pinched plants and I’ve had pinched peppers that have been overwhelmed with fruit that they can’t support it all! This year I’m leaving these Lilac bell peppers unpinched and free!🫑🫑
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Sweet peas in the veg tunnel🙄 This lot are for

Sweet peas in the veg tunnel🙄 This lot are for a wedding so they need to crack on! To help speed them up they were sown 4 in a pot(kept together for each planting station) and I haven’t pinched them out. Although pinching out does produce more ruddy flowers it does knock the plants back by 2-3 weeks. Finally like farm animals, you want them to reproduce and stressing plants out will speed things up so they are planted close together!🌸
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What’s in your box??🌱 I think this lot of col

What’s in your box??🌱
I think this lot of colourful Oca are rather keen to get in the ground. I’ll be popping them out into the beds in the next few weeks once it stops ruddy raining💦
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Thinking of sowing your pants off this weekend? Ma

Thinking of sowing your pants off this weekend? Make sure you give those pots a good scrubbing beforehand to prevent and nasties infiltrating your compost!🌱🌱
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Something is wrong with my bottle of @hendricksgin

Something is wrong with my bottle of @hendricksgin 🌱

Like the chicken and the egg, which came first!
The cucumber🥒 or the gin🍸??????
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Big tub, big bush! So here’s the finished tub of

Big tub, big bush! So here’s the finished tub of leafy greens that I’ve had growing in the kitchen window. You can grow salad crops all year round indoors and in pretty much any container you can lay your hands on🙌🏻🌱
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Just some peppery Asian salad mix, grown in a tub,

Just some peppery Asian salad mix, grown in a tub, in my kitchen! Give it a try yourself🌱🌱
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#salad #veg #sowgrowgather #horticulture #grow #growyourfood #cornwall #allotment #farm

Big tub for a big load of salad indoors! Any type

Big tub for a big load of salad indoors! Any type of homegrown greens in these colder months are a welcome addition to any meal and you can have them easy to hand growing in your kitchen and enjoying the warmth. Why not try a salad mix, pea shoots, baby radish or mini brassicas. You can also grow them in pretty much anything that can hold compost👍🏻🌱👍🏻
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#salad #greens #field #countrylife #gyo #kitchen #kitchengarden #cornwall #vegetables #vegetablegarden #garden #gardening #countryside #horticulture #allotment #growyourown #veg #plant #sustainable #seasonalvegetables #veggarden #growyourownfood #gardenerslife #southwest #farm #beard #instagood #beautiful #designerclothes

A welcome winter addition for dinner! Probably the

A welcome winter addition for dinner! Probably the last few bits of PSB before they will need removing so the bed can be prepped for this year🥦
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Another load of Oca out the ground and washed, jus

Another load of Oca out the ground and washed, just in time for Christmas! Merry Christmas all🌱🎄🌱
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Quick Oca inspection revealed a few decent tubers

Quick Oca inspection revealed a few decent tubers but I’ll leave them in the ground for another couple of weeks. Simply roasted with rosemary, olive oil, salt and pepper(chilli works great as well)👌🏻
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Nobby weird shaped, colourful, nutty lemon flavour

Nobby weird shaped, colourful, nutty lemon flavoured tubers!! Yes that’s right, if you’ve grown Oca this year the plants will now be flowering and starting to produce the tubers. These tubers don’t begin to form until the final few weeks of autumn as the days shorten. Keep an eye on them and harvest as the first frosts begin to arrive🙌🏻🌱
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Now that’s a proper dragons egg cucumber! I alwa

Now that’s a proper dragons egg cucumber! I always leave a few to fully mature at the end of the season so I can save the seed👍🏻🥒
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I’m still picking lots of Cayenne peppers for dr

I’m still picking lots of Cayenne peppers for drying in the oven! Peppers seem to never go away as it won’t be long before I sow them again for the year ahead although it is possible to look after your peppers over winter and keep them alive!🌶🌶
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With a whiff of autumn in the air it’s time to w

With a whiff of autumn in the air it’s time to wipe the dew from my moustache, put away my denim hot pants and wait for the Cucurbit patch to die off. If you’ve grown squashes and pumpkins in a small pot, up a fence or over an arch I’m sure you’ve spotted this years lovely fruit. It’s quite sheltered where we are so the plants are holding out but as they slowly die back you get a glimpse of this years selection. We’ve got a mix of large and small including Crown prince, Jack be little and Blaze. Although the small ones are mainly ornamental they actually taste bloody amazing when hollowed and baked whole🙌🏻🎃🙌🏻
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#squash #pumpkin #field #countrylife #gyo #kitchen #kitchengarden #cornwall #vegetables #vegetablegarden #garden #gardening #countryside #horticulture #allotment #growyourown #veg #plant #sustainable #seasonalvegetables #veggarden #growyourownfood #gardenerslife #southwest #farm #beard #instagood #beautiful #designerclothes

Not the biggest watermelon I’ve ever grown but i

Not the biggest watermelon I’ve ever grown but it’s ripe!🤣 Unlike other melons where you can sniff their bums to tell if their ripe, watermelons don’t give off a smell so you need to look for other signs as well as giving them a helping hand. Firstly you want to reduce how much water your giving them as this will help them mature and become sweeter!🍉 Three things I look for on a ripe watermelon are a browning tendril next to the melon on the main stem, the melon stem becoming slightly brown and finally if you play them gently like a drum you’ll here the different tones and the lower and more hollow sounding they become, the more ripe they are! 🍉🍉🍉
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Wildflower seed sieving!🌸🌻🌼 . . #seeds #w

Wildflower seed sieving!🌸🌻🌼
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#seeds #wildflowers #field #countrylife #gyo #kitchen #kitchengarden #cornwall #vegetables #vegetablegarden #garden #gardening #countryside #horticulture #allotment #growyourown #veg #plant #sustainable #seasonalvegetables #veggarden #growyourownfood #gardenerslife #southwest #farm #beard #instagood #beautiful #designerclothes

Possibly the weirdest and most aggressive looking

Possibly the weirdest and most aggressive looking fruit you can grow! The Horned Melon(Kiwano) is a great climbing fruit that it definitely worth adding to your seed order. Unless you live somewhere tropical it needs to be grown in a window sill, greenhouse, poly tunnel…. Just any place that’s warm!🌱
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#hornedmelon #kiwano #field #countrylife #gyo #kitchen #kitchengarden #cornwall #vegetables #vegetablegarden #garden #gardening #countryside #horticulture #allotment #growyourown #veg #plant #sustainable #seasonalvegetables #veggarden #growyourownfood #gardenerslife #southwest #farm #beard #instagood #beautiful #designerclothes

This years medley of cherry tomatoes! I’ve been

This years medley of cherry tomatoes! I’ve been adding and changing it a few every year to create a great looking/tasting mix. All that’s missing is a few green varieties that haven’t performed well this year🤦🏼‍♂️ The varieties are…….

Top:
Black Opal, Michael Pollen, Brads atomic, Napa Rose
Middle:
Artisan Tiger mix, Orange Paruche, Pink Tiger, Honeycomb, Artisan Bumblebee Mix
Bottom:
Artisan Tiger Green, Sungold, Tigerella, Brads Crazy Cherry
🍅🍅🍅
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Give us a quick sniff!! A garden without sweet pea

Give us a quick sniff!! A garden without sweet peas isn’t a garden!
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