The vegetable plot I use down at my friend Jim’s garden has some wonderful soil in it as it has received at least 40 bales

My onion beds have been ravaged by the dreaded fungal disease White Rot. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this disease, it manifests

I shall continue this week with my theme of taking you around my vegetable garden, giving you hints and tips on how to treat the

Regardless of whatever weather is thrown at us, we still have a job to do in order to get the vegetables on to the show

The biggest problem that most growers have with shallots is harvesting them at the right time so that, when they are ready for staging, they

The carrots will be filling out now and one of the first signs of this happening will be some fine cracks being noticeable along the

For the gardener, and in particular the Showman, the cauliflower is much more difficult to grow to perfection than the cabbage and is reflected as

A completely different scenario to growing onions and leeks because you can actually follow their development right through the season and well before the show

The collaring material that I use is builders damp course, this is a very flexible tough black plastic material which you can easily cut to

This year my display is sponsored by Suttons, and having already had two gold’s the pressure is much greater when going for a hat trick.

Most show schedules have classes for beans of some description and all are usually well entered in, particularly the broad bean classes at local shows

Not so many years ago, the class for small onions or onions under 8 ounces as they used to be called, would be staged predominantly

A lot of hard work and preparation went into the onion beds this year, they were initially all forked over to a good depth during

This year more than ever it’s important to grow varieties that are going to fit the judging criteria of the show you intend to exhibit

If someone asked me which vegetable I dislike judging the most then the answer would more than likely be the globe beetroot, mainly because they

I am growing two types of blanch leeks this year in the three long beds in the bottom polytunnel. Two of the beds will be

Onions – All my beds have been built up using concrete blocks to a height of around 600mm, this means that the soil is very

To get top quality exhibition long carrots for the August shows they have to be sown before the end of March as they need a

Once the pots are filled they are placed side by side into a furrow or trench the width of the pot and about a spit

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