Of all the 20 pointed vegetables, Celery must surely be one of the most difficult to grow to perfection as it can completely let you

Two vegetables that deserve to be listed in many more show schedules than they are now are the Capsicums and the Aubergines or the Peppers

The large exhibition onion plants are now in 3″ pots and really motoring away and very shortly they will have to be potted on into

We really took a chance to venture out with the howling gale around us, but what do you do when you have a greenhouse full

All plants require the following major or macro nutrients to be freely available in the soil and ready to be absorbed them, Nitrogen, Phosphorous and

Growing onions for the under eight ounce class, or is it the 250 gram class?, is the first vegetable seed that I sow in the

For the first time ever I have different varieties of blanch leeks growing away under lights in my propagating unit and they are all doing

This week I would like to look back over the year highlighting some of my failures as well as the odd success and in so

Onions need a long season to grow to their optimum size as well as getting a sufficient period to ripen up properly so that you

There is no doubt that if you are to improve on the quality and consistent shape of your onions for exhibition, then the selection of

All of the blanch leeks that win at the highest level are grown from bulbils or pips and rarely from seed. If therefore you haven’t

There doesn’t appear to be many topics that can stir so much emotions at show time than perceived poor judging with many normally sensible people

There doesn’t appear to be many topics that can stir so much emotions at show time than perceived poor judging with many normally sensible people

A few weeks ago I wrote about the percentage judging system where a top quality dish of the lower pointed vegetable has an equal chance

Blanched Leeks for vegetable displays are very rarely grown from seed. If you are to have any chance at all of growing such super specimens

The competition is for a display of three types of vegetables from the following list of eight, the quantity of each vegetable required for the

Both greenhouses are connected to the mains electricity with 3 KW heaters in each as well as bench heating and artificial lights so there is

One vegetable that I feel has improved immensely over the past few years is the potato, the standard which is being set at national level

Now is the perfect time to be getting on with preparing the beds for next year. Before you rush out though and start digging, have

The collections I’m referring to are those such as the ones for six kinds of vegetables three of each kind where the leeks and celery