Which potato for your recipes
November is the time to start thinking about which potatoes to grow. We’ll be delivering seed potatoes from December onwards so best get your order in soon …
Homegrown Food
Seed potatoes – To Chit or not to Chit?
Once you have bought your seed potatoes the question is whether or not you need to chit them and this is a question that has been long debated. We at Suttons …
Harvesting and Storing Vegetables
Most foods are best eaten fresh but many of us will still be harvesting and storing vegetables. So, if you really can’t face chopping another tomato, …
Wondering which tomato to grow? Read our guide and choose with confidence
Tomatoes come in all shapes, sizes and colours with some being happy growing direct in the garden and others preferring the protection of a greenhouse. Some …
National Gardening Week: 5 Benefits of Gardening
It’s National Gardening Week, and we’re celebrating all the benefits associated with getting out into the garden as much as you can. National Gardening …
Visiting The Lost Gardens of Heligan
Visiting professional gardens can be completely inspiring or totally depressing. I go home either wanting to concrete over the lot and take up golf or feeling …
How to Avoid Bitter Cucumbers
The anticipation of that first bite as the new cucumbers begin to develop. Followed by the huge disappointment and surprise of a disgustingly bitter taste. …
Soft Fruit Means Strawberry Gin!
Remember that cool spell of weather we endured in May/early June? Not welcome at all and certainly stunted the growth of many young plants. But now we are …
Which Tomatoes are High in Lycopene?
Lycopene is believed to being one of the key factors behind the healthy Mediterranean diet. So which varieties of tomato have the highest lycopene content? …
Mulberry Bush Charlotte Russe
“Here we go round the Mulberry Bush” is a nursery rhyme, a singing game and a film. Yet the bush also has strong royal connections, dating back to James 1. …