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Growing Your Own Vegetables and Herbs – Parsley, Lettuce and Onions
Parsley – can often be haphazard in germinating and often
To Rotivate or Not to Rotivate?
Whether or not to use a rotavator directly on previously un dug soil is always a contentious question and it
Keeping to Alloted Time Scale
The tasks are invariably the same annually, but I have rarely achieved them all at my percieved time scale. In
Emptying out and refilling of the Long Carrot Drums
A chore that must be carried out every year is the emptying out and refilling of my long carrot drums.
Get Yourself a Diary
If you are really keen on showing your vegetables, or even on just how well your vegetables performed on any
Preparing the Short Carrots Bed and What to Replace Gringo With
With the demise of Gringo, what carrot to grow for exhibiting when the beds are prepared is the question on
Using your Cold Greenhouse or Polytunnel for Cucurbits
The cucurbits family includes the various cucumbers that are available as well as courgettes and pumpkins and the non edible
Sowing Short Carrots – Corrie and Gringo
When I was growing the short carrot variety Corrie, some years ago by now, I used to win with it
2004’s Late Planting of Onions
Planting later naturally meant that the onions needed to be in larger pots which is a change from my usual
Vegetables for Chelsea Flower Show – Celery
Easter was early this year and it certainly brought with it some glorious weather which has, to some extent, stayed
Runner Beans – Pretty and tasty but not an easy crop
They are probably the most popular of all the vegetable varieties and during the summer months their red or white