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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
Coping with Winter
Frost brings it’s own problems, it can particularly put a great deal of load on your electric greenhouse heater. Do make sure that you check
Large Kelsae Onions
My own re selected seed of the large Kelsae onions are doing very well at the moment and will very shortly be ready for transplanting.
Celery and Parsley
I am not in that much of a hurry to get my celery sown just yet, however if you have an early show from the
Growing Your Own Vegetables – Shallots
Traditionally, Shallots (Allium ascolonium) were always planted on the shortest day, the 21st December and harvested on the longest day, the 21st June. Conditions however
Madhouse Time in the Greenhouses
It’s madhouse time over at the greenhouses in Bangor at the moment with everything needing to be done at the same time, seed sowing, transplanting,
Growing Your Own Vegetables – Salad Material
Salading or Salad vegetables are defined in the Royal Horticultural Society Show Handbook as ‘A vegetable used in either a raw or cooked state and
Backing up with an F1 Hybrid celery seed for the Chelsea Show. Transplanting young Onion Seedlings
Celery – there is nothing worse than having banked on a certain sowing only to find, for some reason or other, that the germination has
Sowing and Growing Parsnips
Different growing mixtures, cultivars and timing makes the difference between show winning parsnips and the also ran. Sowing Parsnips It’s time to be thinking about
Greenhouse Shelving, Benches and Lighting
Have a good think of how you can utilise space within your greenhouse. There are many different designs on shelving that you can now purchase,
Growing Your Own Vegetables – Broad Beans, Peas and Onions
It’s time now to turn over the soil for planting Broad beans, Peas and Onion sets directly outdoors. The ground however must be in the