Dobies Blog

Here at Dobies of Devon we have customers who are new to gardening together with those who have many years of skill and experience. We really enjoy receiving letters and…

Evidence shows that grapes were first cultivated 6,000 to 8,000 years ago with the oldest winery being discovered in Armenia dating to 4,000 BC. Today about 72 million tonnes of…

We have good news about our vegetable seed that we’d like to share with all our valued customers. News that reinforces the decision you made in choosing Dobies as the…

One of our most popular annual flowers summer just wouldn’t be complete without sweet peas growing happily somewhere in the garden. The wonderful range of colours and heady scent makes…

“If no one enters items for the show then there is no show” was said to me a long time ago but remains the reason I enter classes with sometimes…

Dobies prize winning beans competition. Winners announced in true pantomime style!

Quintessentially France I have just returned from ten days in Brittany – wonderful weather and over 700 miles of touring, door to door. Camera and journal / sketchbook allowed me…

In the last of my posts on photography in the garden, I want to encourage you to keep your eyes open! Open to the possibilities that lie all around you.…

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…

I have to admit when first learning some while back of the existence of Dobies grafted vegetable plants to being a little dubious. Not being a horticulturalist left me wondering…