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
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, …
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 …
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. …
Quad Tomato Plants
Quad tomato plants are one of the latest innovations from our team of professional plantsmen. The clue is in the name with four of course being the magic …
Growing Your Own Quinoa
Quinoa burst onto the foodie scene just a few years ago and is now considered a store cupboard staple. Although it may seem trendy and fashionable quinoa is …
Grow for Flavour Seed Range
Our 2017 range includes James Wong’s Grow for Flavour Seed Range. James tells us “To my mind by far the most convincing reason to grow your own is the …