Preserving Surplus Crops
Much of what we grow is best eaten fresh. Often, cherry tomatoes or sugar snap peas don’t even make it…
How to keep your vegetables thriving in a heatwave
Keeping our vegetable gardens or allotments alive and thriving during the worst that summer can throw at it can feel…
How to make your own compost – and why we all should
As any gardener will tell you, the compost heap is the beating heart of a garden. The cherished ‘black gold’…
Allotment Jobs for May
May is a busy time in the allotment or veg patch. With temperatures rising, plants are growing apace and need…
Top Winter Vegetables: Best Hardy Varieties to Grow
Many of us grow an abundance of wonderful crops for harvesting over summer and autumn. In the meantime, winter vegetables…
Top Ten Allotment Staples: Best Vegetable Varieties to Grow
New to growing veg, and not sure where to start? Or simply faced with too much choice? To give you…
A Guide to Winter Bedding Plants
With our guide to planting winter bedding plants, you’ll achieve wonderful winter garden displays to brighten your outside space and life…
10 Things You Didn’t Know About the RHS Chelsea Flower Show
Starting in 1913 at London’s Royal Hospital, Chelsea, the RHS Chelsea Flower Show is one of the most recognisable horti…
New Flower Seeds Join The Rob Smith Range
Dobies is pleased to introduce inspiring new flower seeds to the Rob Smith range for 2022 – exciting new varieties…
September Newsletter
“September days have the warmth of summer in their briefer hours, but in their lengthening evenings a prophetic breath of…