Rootle and Sprout: No dig, low maintenance, healthy & edible gardens.

Rootle and Sprout: No dig, low maintenance, healthy & edible gardens. Edible gardening for real life: plants & ideas, produce and ramblings... Permaculture & Forest gardening principles used to make beautiful edible spaces

Unusual, perennial and edible or useful plants are my passion. I sell the plants I grow, as well as produce and some of the things I make from them: botanical syrups, drinks and teas. A lifelong love of gardening, growing & foraging; a creative mind & a love of eating 'straight off the tree' have all led Beca Beeby to spread the joy of an edible garden to others. Since discovering permaculture & f

orest gardening, Beca has broken free of 'traditional' gardening methods and experimented with new techniques for growing. Her young family reap the benefits of their edible garden at home, whist she designs & builds larger gardens for others to enjoy. Using methods that build a healthy soil structure & provide space for beneficial wildlife, Beca has embraced the permaculture aims of reducing labour input & increasing produce; no-dig beds, regular mulching, choosing the right plants are all important parts of this. Helping people grow food without turning their garden into an allotment, and to try new crops.

Got some ladybird larvae on my fennel, so have moved them to my aubergine, which are currently hosting the aphids.....
03/07/2020

Got some ladybird larvae on my fennel, so have moved them to my aubergine, which are currently hosting the aphids.....

Bountiful is the word! Literal mountain of watercress (that I forgot to photograph ); piles of nuts; a pinny full of f...
27/08/2019

Bountiful is the word! Literal mountain of watercress (that I forgot to photograph ); piles of nuts; a pinny full of figs; and MY FIRST EVER KIWI FRUIT 😃 (not ripe yet)

Tree spinach: a brilliant plant, eat the leaves raw or cooked but always leave a few to go to seed : you'll never need ...
25/08/2019

Tree spinach: a brilliant plant, eat the leaves raw or cooked but always leave a few to go to seed : you'll never need to plant it again & will have a recurring source of 'spinach' with next to no input! It's also got magic pink sparkly 'fairy glitter' so great for any reluctant leaf-eaters (sadly it disappears when cooked).

It's a pear-y good year for many fruits! Enjoying my blackberry archway...the wasps got to my early apples before I d...
20/08/2019

It's a pear-y good year for many fruits! Enjoying my blackberry archway...the wasps got to my early apples before I did so I'm checking my pears daily 😊

One of my cherry trees got aphids badly this year.... I left them to it and it's been pretty interesting - not.only did ...
22/07/2019

One of my cherry trees got aphids badly this year.... I left them to it and it's been pretty interesting - not.only did I see bumble and honeybees harvesting the honeydew from them, but I now have ladybird larvae (pictured) & pupae coming out of my ears!

I am incredibly lucky - I get to work at some beautiful places: yesterday I was planting up some squash at Old Lands an...
05/07/2019

I am incredibly lucky - I get to work at some beautiful places: yesterday I was planting up some squash at Old Lands and spent half the time removing these beautiful butterflies (either Gatekeeper or Meadow Brown as far as I can tell)-I must have moved at least 30! This little feller wouldn't leave my hand so I went on search of some flowers for him, I held him to a salvia and he unrolled his proboscis then pulled back, I then tried some sweet rocket (Hesperis matronalis) & he practically plunged his face in like a drowning man!

01/02/2019
Pretty good first turmeric harvest!
07/11/2018

Pretty good first turmeric harvest!

Dewberries!!! Actual Dewberries with dew on them....
08/09/2018

Dewberries!!! Actual Dewberries with dew on them....

Szechuan pepper glut this year! The Red outer husk is the bit with all the flavour :-)
05/09/2018

Szechuan pepper glut this year! The Red outer husk is the bit with all the flavour :-)

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