Hilling all root vegetables

Hilling all root vegetables

28 October 2023 | Gardening tips, Root Vegetables

Hilling all root vegetables ‘Hilling’ or ‘hilling up’ of potatoes is a well-known technique for producing more tubers and preventing ‘greening’, which is toxic to potatoes. Less well-known is that hilling up all root vegetables will...
July garlic hint

July garlic hint

6 July 2023 | Gardening tips, Garlic, July, Monthly Guides, Root Vegetables

July garlic hint July is an easy month! All you need to do is keep your garlic weed free, netted to prevent cockatoo strike and watered if there is insufficient rain. If you did not enrich your soil prior to planting, give each row a side dressing of blood and bone...
June garlic hint

June garlic hint

1 June 2023 | Gardening tips, Garlic, June, Monthly Guides, Root Vegetables

June garlic hint There is not much to do for garlic in June – it is now too late to plant it.  Presuming you have weeded, mulched and watered your patch, you have done all you need to.  Now it is time to wait until the shortest day after which garlic heads will...
Growing perfect parsnips

Growing perfect parsnips

2 June 2022 | Gardening tips, Planting guides, Root Vegetables

Growing perfect parsnips Top tips for growing parsnips use fresh seed cultivate the soil to a fine tilth keep ground moist from seed sowing to emergence of seedlings thin seedlings at 5-6 weeks My survey this week (last week of May) revealed that parsnips on average...