Wally Richards – July is potato planting month
Wally shares information and advice on growing your own potatoes and imparts a secret technique for producing the best spuds ever.
Tag: "potatoes"
Jun 28, 2011 | 0 comments
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Wally Richards – August & it’s all happening
Last week I popped into a local garden centre and was taken back on all the new season’s stocks of things that we should be getting organised to do. Spring vegetables and flower seedlings, seed potatoes, asparagus crowns, liliums, strawberry plants, fruit trees and ornamentals to name some of the main lines. The weather has […]
Aug 05, 2010 | 0 comments
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Winter Gardening
Those living off the smell of an oily rag are usually keen gardeners, because fresh is best and it’s a great way to save money! To many it’s also a fulfilling leisure activity. So let’s head off into the oily rag garden, just to show it’s never too cold to go gardening! For most people the […]
Wally Richards – Time for planting winter vegetables
Now is the perfect time to plant out seedlings of vegetables for harvesting in winter. Many gardeners leave the planting of winter vegetables too late in the season to obtain good mature produce during the cold winter months. The idea is to plant out seedlings now while there is ample growth through warmth and plenty […]
Jan 19, 2009 | 11 comments
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Gardening Tips – potatoes, Oxalis,
This week I thought it would be a good idea to pass on a number of gardening tips which are topical at this time of the year. The idea came about when a reader emailed me this week to get some inside information on growing potatoes. His family have an annual competition on growing spuds, […]
May 16, 2008 | 3 comments
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About Potatoes, Codlin Moth and other tips
A wealth of knowledge and interesting tips on gardening are gathered by gardeners over the years and passed onto gardening friends over a talk around the garden, or over a cuppa. I am in the fortunate position, as a result of my availability to gardeners through my 0800 phone or the Internet to be a […]
May 16, 2008 | 0 comments
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