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It’s Half Potato, Half Tomato: Are You Ready for the TomTato?
Let's do a quick history of Thompson & Morgan, the British seed company. It was founded by William Thompson in 1855, in a garden shop behind a bakery
Plant
Making monoculture work
To many farmers and home gardeners, crop rotation is a holy grail – they’ll never plant the same crop consecutively in the same ground.
Getting rid of paspalum
A type of kweek grass, called couch paspalum (Paspalum distichum), is gaining a foothold on many vegetable farms. Also known as ‘kweek paspalum’
Making a point
Recently, I wrote about the necessity of ensuring vegetable transplants have enough nitrogen in the plug or in the plant to stimulate root growth and ensure
The correct spacing for onions
‘Sunlight is the ultimate limiting factor. Water and nutrients will only optimise the limits set by day length.’
7 Tips for Finding the Perfect Pumpkin
Here are seven tips from Joy for those planning a similar schlep to the pumpkin patch.
Removing the hazards from transplanting
We’ve covered the requirements for the most suitable seedlings in the past few articles. It doesn’t stop there, though, as all this good work can be
Square versus round plugs
In addition to seedling hardness, there’s also the matter of seedling size, which, of course, depends on the size of the cell – or plug – in the seedling tray.
Growing Brussels sprouts
Brussels sprouts is a luxury item not part of our daily cuisine and usually reserved for special treats. It is generally well known that this crop is a dedicate
Understanding spray mixtures
With spray adjuvants, many farmers think that mixing a sticker and a wetter/spreader into the water are the same thing. This is certainly not true.
How to harden seedlings
Seedlings need to be hardened to enable the plants to survive in the new environment where they are planted. hardening has another advantage.
Know your seedling needs
Vegetable seedlings vary quite a bit, so make sure you tell your seedling grower what you need.
Expert Tips for Growing Leeks and Exhibition Leeks
Gardeners in the north of England, Durham and Northumberland particularly, have made the growing of exhibition leeks very much their own