There is no doubt that over the past few years this show has become one of the main events in the keen vegetable exhibitors’ diary.

Peas are a good example of a vegetable that’s easily destroyed by careless handling and poor packaging; they should be cut off the bine on

Cauliflowers are an extremely difficult vegetable to grow to perfection for a given show day and you need to have a few staggered sowings if

It’s worth remembering though that unlike pot plants, once you pull a vegetable from the soil, it’s effectively dead and all you can do is

I first introduced the Buffalo onion on to the show scene when the National Vegetable Society Championships were held at Swansea many years ago and

It’s that time of year once again when most of the vegetable flower shows are over and we must make the maximum use of any

It’s not often these days that we see something exceptionally good, either on the show bench or growing in the garden. Mel Ednie’s bed of

Most of the preparatory work obviously gets done outside but there is valuable work to be done indoors as well. One task that I like

The main job now is to remove everything from both greenhouses and give them a real clean out as I shall soon be requiring them