Category: General

The Dobies Christmas Gardening Quiz is perfect for when there’s nothing on the TV and its too cold to go for a walk. Just settle down in a comfy chair…

How Well Do You Know Your Christmas Veg? Here’s a few facts for you to share over the festive table.

Dobies Group Scheme offers generous discounts to allotment groups, garden clubs and societies Members of amateur gardening clubs can benefit from the generous discounts offered by the Dobies Group Scheme.…

Overwintering dahlias is worth doing correctly to ensure that next year you can again enjoy the colourful blooms. Dependant on whereabouts you live your dahlias are probably looking pretty untidy…

Cut Flower Arranging There are not many better reasons for growing your own flowers than to create your own cut flower arrangements. With the Rob Smith range of cut flowers…

Heritage Veg is making a big return in our 2017 Seed Catalogue. Rubbing shoulders with exciting new varieties the heritage veg range is championed by Rob Smith, winner of the…

This September sees the introduction of our brand new early delivery option on selected plants. Last frost dates differ from region to region and some gardeners are able to provide…

Weeding is a marmite job, some gardeners gain great satisfaction from a day spent weeding, others simply hate it. So why is weeding so important? Weeds compete with plants for…

At this time of year aphids are beginning to rampage. These small, pear-shaped insects like soft new growth on trees, shrubs, perennials, climbers, fruit, annuals and veg. In other words…

Kale has successfully moved from being classed as cattle fodder to becoming a superfood. Delicious, exceptionally high in vitamins and fibre kale is really easy to grow, even in a…