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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Wow, what a great start to October weatherwise for some of us – better than summer! Well lets not get carried away as there is work to be done. Not …
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 …
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 …
The ancient Egyptians credited it with magical medicinal powers, and Roman legionnaires attributed their strength and stamina to the “stinking rose.” …
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 …