How To Grow Autumn-Planting Garlic
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…
New Vegetable & Flower Seeds for 2024!
Dobies new seed range contains new and exciting varieties of flowers and vegetables to deliver colour, interest, scent and taste, while keeping wildlife happy too!
What’s the Difference Between Grafted and Non-Grafted Veg Plants?
We all know that growing your own vegetables in your own veg patch or allotment is a rewarding achievement, and you can’t beat the taste of homegrown vegetables straight from…
Growing Herbs in Pots: Top Tips for a Container Herb Garden
Herbs are an essential element for any kitchen gardener. They’re simple to grow in borders, window boxes or decorative containers. As well as bringing charm and fragrance to your garden,…
Chitting Potatoes – Is it Necessary?
On the subject of potatoes, one of the questions we are most frequently asked is whether chitting is necessary. Our response is that first early and second early varieties should…
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 are too often overlooked! However, there is no reason you…
Vegetable delights
Sometimes, I think that gardeners, if they are not also cooks, forget that vegetables are grown to be eaten! Yet for what other purpose do we take such loving care…
New Rob Smith Range Vegetable Seeds 2022!
Five new & exciting versatile new seed veg varieties to tempt you! Dobies brings you five fantastic new veg seed varieties in the Rob Smith range for 2022. Rob wants…
April Newsletter
“Spring would not be spring without bird songs“. ~ Francis M. Chapman In these unusual times, our gardens remain an oasis of calm, largely unaffected by the latest news. In…
March Newsletter
“Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn“. ~ Lewis Grizzard For gardeners, the arrival of March arouses a sensation others savour only at Christmas. Winter…