A Guide to Winter Bedding Plants
With this guide, you’ll achieve wonderful winter garden displays to brighten your outside space and lift your spirits in the dark days of winter. Why use winter bedding plants? Bedding…
Preserving Surplus Crops
Much of what we grow is best eaten fresh. Often, cherry tomatoes or sugar snap peas don’t even make it as far as the kitchen, and ripe sweetcorn cobs go…
National Gardening Week
National Gardening Week celebrates the greatest aspects of gardening and raises awareness annually. National Gardening Week 2023 will soon be in full swing – and we’re all about encouraging Britain’s…
New Vegetable Seeds for 2023
Dobies’ new vegetable seed range 2023 includes exciting new varieties to tantalise your taste buds! For our 2023 vegetable seed range, we’ve added 44 new cultivars to keep your allotments,…
Tomato ‘Veranda Red’ – Plant Care & Growing Advice
Taking 15 years to perfect, the Veranda Red, cherry tomato plant is truly a labour of love. Versatile and packed with flavour, this variety provides a satisfying crop. Growing tomato…
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…
How to Encourage Children to Garden
Encouraging your children to garden is not always easy but is a great way to introduce them to nature and for them to interact and learn about the environment around…
How to keep your vegetables thriving in a heatwave
Keeping our vegetable gardens or allotments alive and thriving during the worst that summer can throw at it can feel like a battle. With UK temperatures hitting record highs during…
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…
New Flower Seeds Join The Rob Smith Range
Dobies is pleased to introduce inspiring new flower seeds to the Rob Smith range for 2022 – exciting new varieties guaranteed to produce fabulous floral results. Rob brings you the…