Potting on the Small Onions and Large Onions and a further sowing of Parsley to garnish the Cauliflowers on collections.

I intend to protect my parsnips this year by covering over the beds with Enviro mesh thus giving them a far better start as well

The variety to choose undoubtedly is Ideal, the one that’s been winning at the highest level for many years. There are however two new varieties

We all try and get too many plants into a given space allowing the disease to establish quickly. Planting less plants giving them more room

This is undoubtedly the start of a frantic time in the garden, there is so much to achieve, particularly in the greenhouses and as the

The remarkable thing about all the long roots is that you can give them the exact compost mixture from year to year, yet some seasons

The onions were sown just after Christmas in an attempt to get them to mature slightly later giving me a better selection for the later

The amount of work to be getting on with at this time of year is phenomenal and inevitably, even with the best intentions, some things

I have had to use so many panes to repair my greenhouse and the cost of horticultural glass these days is so expensive, I intend

The soil warming cables in the onion beds were not switched on this year until about ten days ago and the soil temperature underneath the

The first batch of stump rooted carrots, as they are called by the National Vegetable Society, or other than long carrots as they are known

Over the past few years I haven’t been able to show any peas, mainly because they had matured too early or they had fallen foul

I am very pleased with the progress of my first sowing of parsnips this year; they were sown on 21st February and even though they

Some of you may already have your exhibition potatoes planted out but I prefer to leave them until around this time when the weather is

I have reduced the quantity of leeks slightly this year as I needed one of the beds to grow some early broad beans, peas and

Horse manure leads to thinking about worms, which leads to thoughts about the New Zealand Flatworm, plus a visit to the Scottish Crop Research Institute,

The only seed worth harvesting for re use are the straight varieties or the non hybrid types. You must therefore be certain that any pods

The first thing to do is to remove from the greenhouse everything electrical that is unattached such as the propagator and the electric fan heater

The attraction to the Pink Fir Apple however was their knobbly inconsistent shape and immediately my grandchildren called them Dinosaurs, Dolphins and Sharks. If we

Starting them off early means that they will arrive at their optimum early and that might not always be the right thing. Once a leek