Welcome Back Seeds
For 2017 we’re bringing back 12 of your favourite seed varieties. At Suttons we’re all for innovation, introducing new and improved vegetable and flower …
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Suttons and Burncoose Nurseries
Suttons are very pleased to have teamed up with award winning Burncoose nurseries, based in Cornwall. Through this arrangement Suttons customers now have …
Letter to our Customers January 1st 1915
One hundred years ago huge efforts were being made to produce much needed home-grown food and to use all available land as “wisely” as possible. …
My Garden Diary. – Reminders for November 1914
The Vegetable seeds to be sown this month are few, and although success depends on the character of the season, it is advisable to risk, on dry soil, a small …
Letter to our Customers – 1914
“It will be a satisfaction to those who have for so many years supported our House to know that we have been able to maintain our large staff at full time …
My Garden Diary – Reminders for October 1914
Please find below October’s gardening advice from 1914. Many of the tasks still apply today with October being a busy month for us gardeners. Winter …
Morning Prayers – August 1914
During WW1, recreation for soldiers still at home was an essential part of keeping up moral, Suttons provided Abby Hall to help the troops. Read more on the …
Suttons at War
In the early stages of the war there was no shortage of men enlisting and by December 1914 Suttons had 75 men in the Forces. In early 1915 a staff notice …
My Garden Diary, – Reminders for July 1914
While war was just around the corner, the tasks for July 1914 continued in the garden…. One pressing duty of the month is the planting out at …
Northlew WW1 Memorial Evening
Many of you will know from previous blogs that the Dartmoor village of Northlew lost proportionally more enlisted men during WW1 than any other town or village …