Witney Veg

Welcome

2008-06-09T04:21:00.001-07:00

We are sorry, but after 5 years of hard work we have decided not to produce vegetables for the 'alternative veg box' this season. We will be growing potato and onion for sale by the sack and will let you know when they become available.

We would like to thank everyone that has supported us and we have made many friends. We look forward to seeing you again next season.

Kathy, Mike and Hazel

Witney Worms for Fishing

2008-06-09T04:10:00.001-07:00

Worms have taken more of our time than expected and we have decided to discontinue supply.

Opening Times

2008-01-11T06:15:00.000-08:00

We are open to the public on: Saturday : 10.00 - 4.00

We are pulling together more and more veg bags which can be collected between these times on a Saturday or delivered free of charge to Carterton/Brize Norton/Ducklington/Curbridge/Witney after 4pm. Contact Kathy on 07515 372480 for further information.

Availability

2008-01-11T06:12:00.001-08:00

Currently available:

New Potato (Maris Peer/Charlotte/Nicola)
Main Potato (Cara, King Edward, Isle of Jura)
Carrot
White Cabbage
Red Cabbage
Brussels Sprout
Calabrese
Kale
Parsnip
Beetroot
Swede
Onion
Marrow
Pumpkin
Butternut Squash
Beetleaf
Chillies
Tomato
Cucumber
Sweet corn
Cauliflower

Coming soon:

Purple Sprouting
Leek

Next season:

Broad Bean
Runner Bean
French Bean
Peas
Courgette
Salad bag - a mixture of lettuce leaves with/without wild rocket
Radish
Spring Onion

Contact Us

2007-08-17T04:29:00.001-07:00

You can contact us at kathy.godwin@tiscali.co.uk for further information or if you are placing an order please be sure to text the Wednesday before you want to collect/delivery of your order.

Call us on: 07515 372480

Cash on collection/delivery please.

The Alternative Box-Scheme

2007-08-13T05:09:00.001-07:00

We provide our own version of the box-scheme. We have two sizes of bag which we can put together for you, the bags consist of potato and a selection of seasonal vegetable and/or salad vegetables. Recently it has been lean as far as our own stocks go having run out of all our stored crops and the season being a late starter. We have been using local growers and suppliers to provide locally or UK grown vegetables as fresh as possible.

Recent £5.00 bags have contained: 600g salad potato, 500g bunched carrot, cabbage, 100g salad bag, 500g beetroot.
Recent £10.00 bags have contained: 1.2kg salad potato, 500g carrot, cauliflower, cabbage, 100g salad bag, 500g courgette, 500g beetroot, 500g onion, 500g broad bean.

Bags can be ordered up to the Wednesday evening for weekend supply and these bags can be collected from the greenhouses on Saturday between 10am and 2pm or delivered locally.

Volunteer Help

2007-08-06T05:02:00.000-07:00

Hazel continues to be our gardening support, with the emergency help of Sue and Pete. Ryan have moved on to pastures new and Toni training to be a soldier in the Territorial Army.

If you have a burning desire to exercise your gardening skills, but do not have the time to spend on a garden of your own, or are an horticultural student who is looking for some work experience, contact us and we can talk about how we can help each other out.

Directions

2007-07-18T14:48:00.000-07:00

Having not quite mastered how google is making me a map, this is the best I can do at the moment - zoom out four times and then pan left once and up once and you'll find us between Ducklington and Curbridge, just outside Witney on the Standlake side. Sorry we cannot put any signs at the Ducklington or Curbridge end of the road because the council say they detract drivers attention and could cause an accident; so we continue to be one of Witney's best kept secrets.

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Witney Worms for Composting

2007-07-11T09:43:00.000-07:00

If you enjoy composting and get a kick out of disposing of your own kitchen and garden waste without contributing to the local landfill or having pay extra charges for their disposal then worm composting is a clean and efficient means of doing it.

The worms do a fantastic job of recycling our waste materials from the market garden.

Improve the efficiency of your compost heap by adding a kilogram of dendrobaeana worms - they eat their own weight of waste material each day and will continue to increase in numbers. We feed almost everything to our worms, citrus fruits do, however, need a few weeks to allow the acidity to go out of the fruit, and meat is to be avoided so that rats are not encouraged into the heap, we do put in the odd egg box and toilet roll inner - and even the trimmings when we have our hair cut.

If you want to start your own wormery, revitalise an existing wormery or want to improve the efficiency of your compost heap it is easy.

So what do you need? Well a compost bin or some sort which is free draining, but has got a lid or covering. We have some of the council bins from recylcenow which work very well and also have large composting bins which are just wooden boxes covered with bubble wrap and a dark covering held down with tyres which also do a good job, some newspaper, and some composting worms.

We started them off by putting in a couple of newspapers shredded and watered with a watering can, 1kg or worms with their existing bedding (which is some of the compost that they had been making in another bin), a little kitchen waste and another shredded newspaper. We let them settle in and then just started adding the kitchen waste each week from the kitchen bin we also got from the council (previous to that we used an old wallpaper pasting bucket from DIY).

If you have an existing compost then you can just lift a little of the uncomposted matter from the top and place a little shredded paper in the middle (make a sort of nest) tip 1kg compost worms on top and then cover with the uncomposted matter again and let them get on with it.

If the compost bins get too wet we add a little dry shredded paper and if they get a little dry we add a little water, usually from rinsing out the kitchen bin.

Generally we have let the worms just get on with it. You may find a few trying to escape around the top when you lift the lid, we just scoop them up and pop them back in and you can get a bit of a problem with small flies if you add too much fruit waste without chopping it up a bit to help it break down so the worms can do their thing.

We have so far not filled one bin in a season, but have managed to get a good wheelbarrow full of compost from the bottom of the bin for seedlings. When it is time to get the compost out of the bin (we did this last year in March) we have lifted the bin off, picked off the uncomposted food using a fork and dumping it in a pile nearby, then picked off the layer (about a 6 inch layer of composted waste) which contains most of the worms (agin using a fork) and put this in a bucket, and then collected the remaining composted material into the wheelbarrow. There are still a few worms in the compost and a good number of eggs; we just picked out the larger of the worms and put them with the others. We then put the compost bin into a slightly new location, put some shredded newspaper at the bottom, watered it and added the worms and uncomposted material and heyho off we go again.

We are no longer supplying worms directly, but still use them for our own composting on site and would recommend this method of composting to all.

Witney Veg - Welcome

2007-07-06T04:48:00.001-07:00

We hope that you find the information useful and that you are tempted by the produce we have on offer. If you have any comments or suggestions on the veg or the information please let us have them and we can improve this information further.
If you have a site of your own that you would like posted on our blog we would be happy to do so and we would appreciate it if you would like to send our blog address to your friends so that they too might experience fresh seasonal vegetables.

You are welcome to visit the garden (see Directions) and check out our Opening Times. Details of what we currently have available can be found under Availability.

Please see Contact Us for details of how to order our alternative box scheme for collection.