Category: Potatoes, Garlic & Onions

Planting autumn garlic from October to January will provide you with a crop from May to July next year. A member of the onion family, garlic is a staple of…

You can’t beat cooking your own roast potatoes from scratch, let alone using your own homegrown potatoes. Growing your own potatoes is a rewarding process that provides a great plot…

Traditionally exhibition onions are sown on Boxing Day so if you are brave enough to have a go then you need to be ordering your seed now. Onions are one…

The potatoes are poking their little heads out so I have healed these up . The beans are growing up the poles over night ! The peas are doing really…

We’ve gone from four inches of rain in two days to nights of heavy frost and freezing temperatures. But on the good days in between I was actually able to…

Touring on the continent this summer in our motor-home, whilst the UK wet seemed to follow wherever we travelled, I was nevertheless always drawn to the vegetable stalls in every market –…

Hundreds of primary school children converged on the showground at Malvern early on Friday, full of energy and enthusiasm – for potatoes. “Grow your own potatoes” has been the message…

Scarecrows, begonias and an update on our allotment and new potager all feature in this first June posting. As the days lengthen towards mid-summer, there still does not seem to…

The ubiquitous potato is a staple of most people’s diet, and has been ever since the sea-faring Sir Francis Drake introduced them to our shores in the 1580s – and…