The Village Show
“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 Magic Bean Competition Results!
Dobies prize winning beans competition. Winners announced in true pantomime style!
Brittany Observed (or parts of it)
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…
Open your eyes !
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.…
Allotments
bulbs
Christmas
Flowers
food & recipes
fruit
garden care
herbs
planning
Potatoes, Garlic & Onions
shrubs
Vegetables
Progress in our ‘Dobies’ garden plots
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…
Advantages of Grafted Vegetables
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…
Vegetable Heaven
Back at the ‘Beat the Spiralling Cost of Food’ Dobies of Devon display at the Malvern Spring Gardening Show this morning (stand OS564 in the Plant Pavilions opposite the Wye…