Vegetables

Ornamental edibles can hold their own with flowers! In fact some ornamental edibles are not only good enough to eat but can upstage many of the flowering plants we grow! There are masses of [...]

Recommended vegetable varieties can be a very personal thing. Everyone has their favourites but maybe they haven’t tried too many others? To my mind there is every reason to try newer [...]

  Grafted tomatoes and vegetables are becoming much more widely available. Fruit trees, roses, ornamental trees and difficult to propagate shrub varieties have been grafted for years. But [...]

Potatoes in containers can finally get started! And it’s great to ‘grow your own’ again! Whilst I’m sure that the keenest veg gardeners have already got lettuce, broad beans, peas and [...]

Are you considering which tomato variety to grow this year? Well I’ll give you some pointers from a relatively recent trial. Shop bought tomatoes in Winter Sadly the home grown crop is [...]

To grow fresh rhubarb is easy but you need to be patient. Once established rhubarb will keep on cropping for many years with little attention from you! It’s a firm favourite with British [...]

In this blog I’ll reveal the benefit of grafted plants to the gardener. Because nurserymen put in the hard graft so that gardeners benefit from better plants to grow! Let me explain. A [...]

In this blog I want to share with you my tips on growing tomatoes. Maybe you consider yourself an expert? But I find no matter how experienced a gardener you are there is always something to [...]

Modular growing of plants is on the increase and there are many advantages to raising plants this way.   This frustrating season! Here we are in mid February and hardly a thing has been sown [...]

Which seed potatoes to grow in your garden is a question foremost in many gardeners minds at the moment and so I thought that I’d give a bit of guidance. With so much rain this winter I [...]