Tag Archives: Vilmorin

Know Your Onions….

Posted on 08/10/2022 by The Gardens Trust

Let’s start with a startling fact. What’s the world’s most global food crop? Is it Wheat? Rice? Potatoes?  or even the tomato that I wrote about recently? It’s nothing so obvious, rather it is the humble brown, red or yellowish … Continue reading →

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Adam’s weed

Posted on 25/08/2018 by The Gardens Trust

An obscure 17thc botanist cleric is very prominent in many  gardens at the moment because of a plant, that as so often in the weird and wonderful ways of botanical names,  he never saw, didn’t even know existed  and had … Continue reading →

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Peas, perfect peas

Posted on 29/10/2016 by The Gardens Trust

Move over Capability Brown, you have to share your year of fame with peas!  It has probably slipped your notice (as I confess it did mine) but the United Nations has declared 2016 to be the ‘International Year of Pulses’ (IYP) , … Continue reading →

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The straightness of cucumbers…

Posted on 06/02/2016 by The Gardens Trust

Here’s a picture starter  to get you in the right mood for this week’s post. Any guesses as what it might be? Answer at the end. Did you know we had a cucumber industry in Britain? or that we’ve had … Continue reading →

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The colour of carrots

Posted on 05/12/2015 by The Gardens Trust

Monty Don has done it again. I write a post about scything and lawns and he demonstrates how to do it on The Secret History of the British Garden, then I began writing a post on Eleanor Coade and before I had time … Continue reading →

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