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 …
Novice Veg Growing
Patio Veg Collection
With a Suttons Patio Veg Collection you don’t need a dedicated veg patch, a patio or balcony will do fine. The varieties included have been specially …
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Some people like their chilli peppers hot whereas others simply do not. Apparently it all depends on an individual’s palate and how many heat receptors they …
Sweet Potatoes (Ipomoea batatas)
Potato season has started with many seed potatoes chitting away in preparation for planting in a few weeks’ time and others ordered and on their way. We all …
The Art of Grafting
It would be easy to think that the art of grafting one plant onto the rootstock of another is relatively new but in fact evidence exists of it having been used …
Giant F1 Gladiator Parsnip
A big thank you to Alison Watts & Liz West for their letter: My friend Liz and I took over our allotment last December so this is our first year, we …
Hello Gardening World
I’m back! *waves* The completely rubbish gardener – less green-fingered / more butter-fingered gardener has returned. I have read my last …
Garden regrets… (or something less drama queen-like)
I’ve been busy. Family, friends, work, hoovering and dusting (but NOT ironing – I hate ironing), making extravagant meals far beyond my ability …
Tomato Plant Destroyers
My tomato plants are no more. After a long and arduous journey they have gone to tomato plant heaven (i.e. the compost). They were doing ok up to …
More Runner Beans than you can shake a stick at
weird phrase – but there you are. I have lots of runner beans. This has been by far the easiest and prettiest veg that I have grown so far this year. …