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,