Growing for Showing – Parsnips and Celery
Sowing parsnips is always the first job outside for me every year and this year will no exception as I
Sowing parsnips is always the first job outside for me every year and this year will no exception as I
Thankfully I keep a really good diary of my gardening work and now is the perfect time for any of
At most shows, very often the judges have to select the best dish of vegetables in the show, at local
Growing leeks for exhibition is very rarely carried out from sowing seed as the end product will be variable so
The vegetable plot I use down at my friend Jim’s garden has some wonderful soil in it as it has
It’s at this time that the amount of work you put into the preparations earlier on in the year will
Bursting of the flags is a devastating blow at any time, but when it happens within a week or two
Having spent all that time in nurturing your produce, surely it makes sense to pack them and carry them to
The onions were sown just after Christmas in an attempt to get them to mature slightly later giving me a
I intend to protect my parsnips this year by covering over the beds with Enviro mesh thus giving them a
Hello. I’m Medwyn Williams – Thirteen times Gold medal winner at the Chelsea Flower Show, Past Chairman of the Royal Horticultural Society Fruit Vegetable and Herb Committee and President of the National Vegetable Society.