Some pictures of the winners at the National Vegetable Scociety Championships held on the 6th and 7th of September at Dorchester.

There’s no doubt that the Welsh Championships were probably one of the best ever held and filled up a very large Hall in three sections

It’s always a great joy to be invited to judge the Tullamore show in Irelnad which ios always held on the second Sunday of August.

We managed to do the business once again at this show winning another Gold as well as the reserve Best Exhibit in the Show. The

Got up early this morning with the threat of very poor weather, but when I arrived on the field just after 8 things improved immensely,

Oh, the joys of growing for showing. Tatton Park Flower Show is now just over three weeks away and the recent consistent hot weather has

My carrots for Tatton Park are really doing well this year and I should be able to build four or five large baskets of the

In my Blog on the 30th March I mentioned how I had received two new potatoes, one was a white oval called Libertie with excellent

To date I have one whole bed of Sweet Candle carrots sown with 266 bore holes in the bed, these are hopefully for the Welsh

Heartiest congratulations to Peter Glazebrook on smashing the current World Record for the heaviest Cauliflower. Peter weighed two on Easter Monday, the first one was

The exceptionally mild Winter we have experienced seems to be suiting Peter Glazebrook as his onions seem to be doing really well. These photos were

Two days ago I was given two brand new potatoes to grow, one a very white oval variety with very smooth skin and shallow eyes

I have managed to get Everris (Levington) to make up a Pallet for me of F1S, this is in the same ratio of sand to

I wrote the article below for Garden News a few weeks back and I have certainly had a few phone calls since then. Before writing

With the days now lengthening and Spring just round the corner, there will be plenty of things to do from now on. My Pendle Improved

Things are easing off a little now on my Catalogue side of things so I hope to have some time to keep you informed of

We have been so busy here of late that I haven’t had time to be doing any blogging at all.  However Can I first wish

The quality of the vegetables were really good at the Autumn RHS show, it always appears to be a very spectacular event within the great

  Jim Thompson is becoming a specialist at collections and this display of six kinds was really good. The Parsnips were Polar, sadly no longer

It’s been a few weeks since I last posted anything so here goes.  I must first apologies to all those exhibitors I took pictures of