February 1906
In February 2016 lets take a look back to see what advice was being given to gardeners back in February 1906. The tone was rather more dictatorial than …
In February 2016 lets take a look back to see what advice was being given to gardeners back in February 1906. The tone was rather more dictatorial than …
Your January Plant Catalogue should have been delivered by now offering, amongst many other things, an exciting collection of new vegetable plants. If your …
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 …
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 …
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 …
I was doing so well. Most of the seeds and plants are ordered and now I’m awaiting delivery. Great. My potatoes are chitting beautifully and have …
Took advantage of the weather yesterday and dug up our remaining crop of potatoes. We planted Maxine this year, a lovely rosy coloured potato with a very …
Red Duke of York potatoes are so pretty when cleaned up… bright scarlet red. I was feeling a little lazy so just boiled them up, fried some onion and …
Hooray! Please see pic for this evenings’ tea. Am v. excited. Enjoyed myself throughly scrambling for potatoes in the soil. I have some practical …
This is my first year of veg growing – I did try to grow tomatoes a few years ago and kept forgetting to water them. As I am now a couple of years …