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Welsh Branch Championships of the NVS 1999
There is no doubt that over the past few years
Staging Vegetables on the Show Bench – Peas
Peas are a good example of a vegetable that’s easily
Covers for Carrot Beds and EEC Regulations on Pesticides
Might I suggest that you build yourself a temporary cover to go over your carrot beds, both for the long and the short if they
Benefits of under soil heating and artificial lighting
When you have the benefit of under soil heating and artificial lighting it certainly extends your growing season considerably. This can happen to such an
Giant Vegetable Growing and an up-date on the Leeks
I was invited to have a look at Peter Glazebrook’s garden, the giant vegetable grower, just after I had finished judging the North East Derbyshire
The Welsh Chelsea- Long Carrots
My fathers ‘Chelsea’ was our local Anglesey County Show and everything he ever grew was timed to be perfect on that day. The show is
What to do with a four pound Onion!
What do you do with an onion that measures over 20 inches in circumference and weighs nearly four pounds?. If you have yards of cling
Moving On to the Leeks
As with the onions, the two raised beds that I grow my leeks in were thoroughly prepared during late October and November with plenty of
Tomatoes for Showing
Whichever tomato variety you go for it’s important that it has established a pedigree on the show bench as otherwise you will find it very
Exhibition Potatoes Part 1
With the growing techniques that we now possess it”s very infrequent that a winning set of potatoes will have been harvested directly from the soil
Exhibition Potatoes Part 2
We now come to probably the most important bit, at this stage do not apply any water at all to the bags, hence the importance
Surging ahead in the Sunshine
The most important reason is the phenomenal weather that we experienced here in North Wales during March and April. I don’t think I can remember