Medwyn Williams, Chairman of the National Vegetable Society, and member of the Fruit and Vegetable Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society. solid words of advice in plain English… It will certainly have a place on my extensive gardening book shelf. Book Description The down-to-earth guide that takes you through the vegetable year. (more…)
The Expert series is essential reading for all gardeners. –The Sunday Telegraph, 2008 Growing your own food has become one of the nation’s most popular pastimes – in 2008 sales of vegetable seeds exceeded sales of flower seeds for the first time. “The Vegetable & Herb Expert” is the UK’s best-selling gardening book and has [...]
Aug 15
Review If you buy only one book about growing vegetables, make it this one (Kitchen Garden )Practical information you can rely on – with productivity guaranteed (BBC Gardeners’ World )A fat paperback … bursting at the seams with the best advice on vegetables that you’ll find anywhere … Everything you want to know about growing [...]
Aug 13
First screened in 1987, The Victorian Kitchen Garden series follows, life long gardener, Harry Dodson, as he restores a near derelict walled kitchen garden. Presented by Peter Thoday, the series is a delight to watch. The demonstration of the basic gardening techniques used when the gardens were in full production are all sill relevant to [...]
Local horticultural shows have been on the decline for many years in some areas, and even with the revived popularity of ‘Growing Your Own’ lots of gardeners seem reluctant to venture near, which is such a pity. If you’ve never been to a local horticultural show I think that you would be pleasantly surprised at [...]
Aug 4
Allotments in August are just about at their maximum production, and harvesting can at times be a full time job. This month is also a good time to take stock of where things are planted and start to make plans form next years crop rotation. To make this just a bit more fun than writing [...]
New Potatoes for Christmas Dinner. The old trick was to try and store a few tubers of the first early varieties planted out in spring. This often resulted in very varying results. But now the seed potato suppliers store them for us just at the right temperature so they are ready to plant at the [...]
Jul 2
The vegetable garden will be in full production and crops will need regular picking over to sustain the continued production of fresh young produce. Leaving vegetables to get to their maximum size is counter productive, as this slows down their growth and the result is less harvest from the plant, plus they taste better when [...]
