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Let RHS Rosemoor help you kick start veggie season
You can kick start your fruit and vegetable growing year with guided walks, talks and advice at RHS Garden Rosemoor.
With the appetite for local, seasonal produce on the rise, the RHS kicks off its 2011 ‘Grow Your Own Campaign’ on 26th and 27th March with a weekend dedicated to inspiring you to get this year’s veg patch off to a flying start.
The ‘Grow Your Own’ weekend is the ideal place to get inspiration from the experts, and there will be plenty for the seasoned gardener too.
RHS Rosemoor will help you kick start the veggie season
The weekend will give everyone a chance to get one-to- one advice from RHS experts, as well as talks, planting demonstrations, garden walks, fruit and vegetable displays and cookery demonstrations.
Medwyn Williams, Chairman of the National Vegetable Society, the Welsh Vegetable Society and also a member of the RHS Fruit Vegetable and Herb Committee, will be one of the top guests for the weekend and will give an illustrated talk titled ‘Growing for Gold’ at 11.30am each day.
Medwyn will also give a demonstration on how to choose and plant seed potatoes. The potato demonstration will cover the various parts of the potato as well as their classification. It will cover chitting, the benefits or otherwise, of planting in containers without the need for soil as well as the traditional method. Pest and disease control will be covered as well.
Rosemoor’s Plant Centre staff will also be demonstrating how to plant up grow bags and containers with vegetable plants and how to feed and care for them to achieve maximum yields.
Did you know? - Fruit and vegetable facts: Beans are the easiest and fastest vegetable to grow, according to a recent survey conducted by the RHS Apples and strawberries top the list of most commonly grown fruit in Britain’s gardens There are over 7,500 varieties of tomato If you are short on space, many fruit and vegetables can be grown just as well in containers or even a window box
Consult the RHS veg planner (at
www.rhs.org.uk/Gardening/Grow-Your-Own/Grow-Your-Own-Veg/Veg-Calendar) to check the right month to sow and harvest each vegetable
The ‘Grow Your Own’ weekend marks the start of a calendar of RHS events aimed at getting the nation growing more fruit and vegetables. The RHS is also encouraging people to make an online ‘veg pledge’ through its ‘Grow Your Own’ website
www.rhs.org.uk/growyourown, and the first 10,000 individuals and 50 companies to commit to growing this year will receive a free starter pack including Thompson and Morgan seeds, and yearly planting planner.
Springtime at Triscombe Nurseries
With spring really on the way, it’s time to get thinking about new plants for the garden – especially if some have been lost during the bad weather.
Triscombe Nurseries, in its idyllic setting in a former Victorian walled kitchen garden at the foot of the Quantock hills at West Bagborough, offers not only a good range of plants for the new season but knowledgeable advice from owner Stuart Parkman.
He has been involved with the nursery for 40 years, and has owned it with wife Mary since the 1980s, so he is an expert on what will grow in the area. The nursery specialises in herbaceous perennials and there is an excellent selection for sale in containers throughout the year.
Many of the shrubs, climbers, roses, and ornamental trees include many unusual varieties. The fruit trees and soft fruit range is constantly being expanded, and the rock plants and alpines that are available follows a tradition of growing these plants at Triscombe since the nursery was founded in the 1950s, with new varieties being added to the large selection.
Triscombe Nurseries - specialists in herbaceous perennials
Triscombe Nurseries, West Bagborough, near Taunton TA4 3HG. For opening hours and directions call on 01984 618267 or visit
www.triscombenurseries.co.uk
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