Why you should grow garlic – the health benefits
Garlic is popular for its pungent, aromatic flavour, but it delivers some amazing health benefits too. With a history dating back thousands of years, its …
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Should you let garlic flower?
Garlic is a bulb-producing vegetable loved by allotmenteers and home growers alike, but did you know that it also produces a flower, called a ‘scape’? Find …
Historical Veggie Facts
We hope you’ve enjoyed reading our historical veggie facts over the last few days. Many of these were taken from the 1831 edition of The Companion for the …
Salad Days with Suttons
Browsing through the Suttons archives I came across this little booklet, Salad Days with Suttons. Dating back to the early 1970s the booklet was produced when …
Charlies James Wong Trial
I’ve been working at Suttons for six months now, and when I started one of my first projects was the James Wong plant range booklet. I had to do lots of …
Planting garlic
A couple of weeks ago I spent the weekend trying to get some garlic and other over-wintering veg planted. I’ve already planted my broccoli so I thought I …
BBQ recipes using garlic
Ok, as it is that time of year again and the weather is being so phenomenally gorgeous here in Devon I thought I would post a couple of my favourite BBQ …
In love with garlic!
The ancient Egyptians credited it with magical medicinal powers, and Roman legionnaires attributed their strength and stamina to the “stinking rose.” …
Forget gold and silver, invest in garlic
Spotted this great story in today’s Independent. Garlic has been a better investment this year than gold or silver. Yet another reason to grow your own …
Something for next year ….
It’s time to start planting, although there’s precious little that can go in this early. However, leafing through the catalogue on a mission, I …