My Garden Diary. – Reminders for November 1914
The Vegetable seeds to be sown this month are few, and although success depends on the character of the season, it is advisable to risk, on dry soil, a small …
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Paper Shortages & Catalogues
Suttons pioneered many advertising techniques including the production of catalogues, even when there was a national paper shortage as during WW1. Back in 1840 …
Suttons at War
In the early stages of the war there was no shortage of men enlisting and by December 1914 Suttons had 75 men in the Forces. In early 1915 a staff notice …
My Garden Diary, – Reminders for July 1914
While war was just around the corner, the tasks for July 1914 continued in the garden…. One pressing duty of the month is the planting out at every …
Northlew WW1 Memorial Evening
Many of you will know from previous blogs that the Dartmoor village of Northlew lost proportionally more enlisted men during WW1 than any other town or village …
My Garden Diary – Reminders for May 1914
As promised here is the second excerpt from the 1914 My Garden Diary (See here for April 1914). If you do everything then it looks like being a very busy …
Asters in 1914
Back in 1914 Asters were hugely popular with 46 varieties listed in that year’s catalogue taking 6 whole
The Northlew Poppy
“In Flanders fields the poppies blow between the crosses, row on row” Back in October we posted a blog about the Northlew Poppy initiative. Northlew, a …
Suttons Seeds in 1914 a Prelude to World War One
By 1914 Suttons had already been in business for 109 years and had witnessed the Napoleonic and Boer Wars, the Irish Potato Famine and other horrors. 1914 …