Bosley Patch

06/06/2026

https://greenerhenley.org.uk/pledge-for-the-planet/ Check out Greener Henley’s pledges for the planet ..A big part of reducing our individual impact on the planet is our food choices, choosing locally produced food means not only are you reducing carbon emissions you’re increasing the nutritional value of your food, supporting careful and environmentally sensitive, diverse farming practice and local wildlife ( no monoculture here !) and the money you spend stays within your community providing employment and volunteers. We’ve supported any number of neurodivergent people, people recovering from depression and people with learning difficulties and disabilities we’ve also trained many young people in the business and art of baking, growing and flower growing and arranging. So taking a pledge to eat locally produced veg has a much bigger impact than you might imagine! Have a read through their other fantastic pledges and then ACT ON THEM! Little by little we can change the world and maybe even save the planet before it’s just too late !
And thank you Greener Henley for recognising the importance of our little garden and the place it has in your community.

05/06/2026

Beautiful multi coloured beetroot in the shop .. Eat the rainbow !
Makes the best salad with feta and our delicious salad leaves

05/06/2026

The time is coming when your whole plate can be British grown, new season veg (and totally delicious). There are broad beans coming, new potatoes, carrots, our amazing spinach, chard and Kale .. So if you care about food security, the chemical cocktail in conventional veg and climate change .. walk or cycle down to us and pick up some organic low or zero carbon goodness!

04/06/2026

We think all of our leaves are beautiful as well as delicious, but chard is a bit special visually. Slice the stems and sauté or steam for a little longer than the leaves. Smaller leaves can be eaten raw in salads. Pairs well with cheese in tarts and pies or simply steamed or sautéed with garlic and olive oil. It’s absolutely delicious right now specially after the rain has plumped everything up !

28/05/2026

Glorious early mornings … when the flowers are happy … but it’s too early for this heat and our spring sown crops for late summer or autumn harvest need a few, much cooler weeks to build their roots and greenery so they make good strong plants and don’t think it’s August or September just yet !

25/05/2026

Good morning from a very hot Bosley Patch. In all the years I’ve been growing we’ve not had a season quite like this one ! But then again the last few years have all had their challenges ! We’ve a lot of peonies all racing into flower and it’s just too hot to put them into the shop, they really won’t like it ! I’m going to pop them all in our big chiller this morning and if you’d like some ( or one of your beautiful peony bouquets) please would you message or dm me. We can then arrange a pick up time .. on Tuesday or Wednesday once these all had a good long drink !
this crop is a big investment to us and not being able to sell it is a big hit to so please do let me know ! We’ve so many beautiful blooms coming … I know I’ve always joked about them not getting the memo about flowering in time for a weekend … this is a whole new thing !

24/05/2026

24/05/2026

Because the heat in the garden is just too much in the middle of the day I’m going to shift the baking a bit tomorrow .. I’m going to bake at around 10 so that I can get the garden jobs done between having enough light and the sun getting too strong .. I hope it coincides with everyone having a nice slow bank holiday Monday / and you can all pop by an hour or so later than usual ! And now I’m off to rescue my very hot modules which would have all been in the ground already had it not been too cold for the last 3 weeks ! What a season !!

22/05/2026

It’s hard to capture just how fantastic and long this morning’s sweet peas are. The first stems of the season are always the longest, but after last week’s cold snap, we saw a lot of bud drop and I expected the worst. But look how they’ve bounced back! These will be in the shop this afternoon after a quick condition in the cool. E x

16/05/2026

Today, if you want a quality volunteer it’s essential to offer quality accommodation. An old, slightly damp caravan really doesn’t cut it! So after 16 or so years I’ve retired the ‘firestorm’ caravan and replaced it with a much pettier wheeled option! Admittedly it doesn’t have its own kitchen but it’s next to the outdoor volunteer kitchen at the barn and it does have a loo and shower (that actually works, not just a broken one only useful for storage) so from next month .. we’ve got much better options and one that doesn’t look like a hideous bit of Tupperware in the garden ! Happy days !