This will be my seventh consecutive display at Chelsea and the last six displays were considered worthy of a Gold medal every time. The question

Although Celery is rich in a variety of vitamins, mineral salts and iron it’s very low in calories and seems to be a vegetable that

With the Chelsea flower show is history I can get on with growing the vegetables for the Welsh and the National Championships. The tomatoes were

Unlike vegetables such as tomatoes, peas and beans, where you have a continuous crop over a fairly extended period, Cauliflowers are a one off crop

There’s no doubt that the five new hybrid Ideal crosses of celery that I introduced two years ago are having a big impact on the

I could not complete the final preparation of my onion beds until late into April when the large onions were eventually planted. At this stage

Potatoes haven’t been my strong point for a few years now as the sowing or planting time is always falling during the first few weeks

Celery is frost tender so some protection is usually necessary when planting as early as I did, but living here on Anglesey surrounded by the

The garden is all planted up now with peas being the last item to go in this past week. Apart from keeping an eye out

There’s nothing I enjoy more on a warm Summers evening than having a look at the range of vegetables now romping away. Taking a collar

I have said before that a good guide line if you are really after growing a world record leek is to remember the simple measurement

The RHS book calls the short carrot ‘Carrots, other than long” whilst the NVS defines them as �Carrots – Stump Rooted’ so what is the

Removing the haulms used to be looked open as paramount in order to get the fresh young skin of the potato to set hard so

August is probably the easiest month in the vegetable garden but it can also be the most worrying. A lot of vegetables are now approaching

Over the years I have gleaned a lot of information on preparing and staging vegetables, in the main through reading and adapting the information in

At this time of year, most gardeners tend to leave their vegetable plots fallow when in reality they can still harvest good healthy vegetables right

Runner beans have never been one of my strong vegetables on the show bench, indeed it’s one that I have never exhibited at national level.

At least twice a week I shall be sowing some vegetable or other in my greenhouses here and at the University Greenhouses at Bangor for

One important job that I have to carry out today is to pot up my large exhibition onions in order to get some good quality

The doors and frames to my polytunnels are not going to last very long unless treated. It really isn’t a difficult job as most of