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Welsh Branch Championships of the NVS 1999
There is no doubt that over the past few years
Staging Vegetables on the Show Bench – Peas
Peas are a good example of a vegetable that’s easily
Avoiding Malformed Shallots
There’s no doubt that the eventual shape of the shallot is dependant on when the plant was harvested, the important thing being that it should
Vegetables – Celery & Parsnips
Of all the 20 pointed vegetables, Celery must surely be one of the most difficult to grow to perfection as it can completely let you
Peppers and Egg plants
Two vegetables that deserve to be listed in many more show schedules than they are now are the Capsicums and the Aubergines or the Peppers
Large Exhibition Onions – Pests, Mixture, Form
The large exhibition onion plants are now in 3″ pots and really motoring away and very shortly they will have to be potted on into
Howling Gales and Power Failures
We really took a chance to venture out with the howling gale around us, but what do you do when you have a greenhouse full
Soil Analysis – Nitrogen, Phosphorous, Potassium
All plants require the following major or macro nutrients to be freely available in the soil and ready to be absorbed them, Nitrogen, Phosphorous and
Growing onions for the under eight ounce class or 250 grams class
Growing onions for the under eight ounce class, or is it the 250 gram class?, is the first vegetable seed that I sow in the
Artificial Lighting and Leeks
For the first time ever I have different varieties of blanch leeks growing away under lights in my propagating unit and they are all doing