It’s now time to sow chillies and peppers! Chillies and peppers have gone from a novelty vegetable to one of the most popular seeds and vegetable plants. This rise in popularity reflects [...]
Growing tasty new potatoes has one big advantage; you just can’t beat the flavour of early new potatoes taken straight from the earth and into the pan! Is it wrong to also feel smug about [...]
Pumpkins and squash are my edible plant for autumn because they look great, taste good and are fun to grow! In this piece I’ll cover how to grow them and which varieties to try. I’ll [...]
Tips on Sowing Tomato Seeds Sowing tomato seeds to raise your own tomato plants is not difficult but there are a few key points that need to be taken into consideration. I’d love to share [...]
If you have wondered how to grow the earliest new potatoes and get that fantastic taste when shop bought potato prices are ridiculously high, you need to start growing now! An early start, [...]
Riverford Organics has been one of the great successes of UK horticulture in the last 20 years. Starting from delivering veg boxes to just 30 of his friends in South Devon this business now [...]
The three sisters growing technique is uncommon in the UK. It puzzles me that so few gardeners adopt this companion planting vegetable growing method. Sweet corn – not maize I pass fields [...]
Hot chilies; I’d heard about a place that grows them in South Devon. I finally got to visit them! South Devon Chilli Farm had been on my visit ‘wish list’ for years. Passing the [...]