The National Vegetable Society Championships have always been the highlight of my exhibiting season but they have never to my knowledge been held as late

Once you have the potatoes to hand you should then prepare them for chitting, this is a the name given for the process of getting

One thing to remember is that when sowing this early in the season, you must have heat and ideally you also need artificial lights and

The 21st of December is, of course, the shortest day and traditionally the date for planting your shallots but, as the ground conditions are often

If you have re planted your own carrot for seed production you should have chosen a specimen that has all the right characteristics to match

If you happen to have had a particularly good onion and you want to save it for seed do remember that if you plant it

The growing cabinet has been completed and this weekend all the leeks that I started away a few weeks ago will be placed there. They

The beds were three courses of concrete blocks above soil level and the proof of the pudding came when I starting turning over the beds

If by now you have removed all the seed heads containing either seed or bulbils from your stock leeks, there is one other task you

The actual pricking out of the pips is simple – carefully remove them from the head and visually examine the root plate to make certain