Veg Talk – March 2025

As it is still cold at night, be wary of planting anything into the ground.

Potatoes should be chitting well by now.

Veg Talk – February 2025

Potatoes

If your seed potatoes are large, you can split in two.

Check where the chits are, cut so some on both halves, dab each cut section in ash or salt to seal and so get two regular sized seed potatoes for one large!

Parsnips

Why parsnips go brown at the top?

Online research suggested it was a fungal infection caused by water logged soil. Still edible once brown(ed) areas cut out.

Veg Talk – January 2025

Protect any tender crops by covering with fleece, mulch, or manure.

The birds are hungry and pigeons have been eating the tops out of plants – netting will help keep them away.

Now is the perfect time to get all the prep done on your plots for the start of the new growing season.