Advice & Guides
With over 180 years’ experience in the trade we have picked up many tips and have a vast knowledge of the countryside that we would like to share with you. We have dedicated this section of our website to offering all sorts of Advice and Guide to help you, our customers, make the most out of our products.
Our Helpful Tips
Please feel free to browse through our Advice and Guides below. We hope you find these pages useful and that they can provide you with all the information you need. If you have any suggestions for subjects you would like us to cover or have and advice or tips you would like us to share, please do get in contact with us.
Some of our advice and guides may not be relevant for all locations so please check your local conditions and use your own local knowledge before using them.
Agricultural Guides
Swede
Swedes make an excellent high energy winter feed with low production costs.
Forage Kale
Forage Kale is a versatile forage crop that can be used for lambs or dairy cows.
Forage Rape
Forage Rape is a fast growing, leafy catch crop with a high protein content, ideal for all stock classes.
Maincrop Turnip
Maincrop Turnips make an excellent quality autumn/winter feed that are quicker to mature than swede.
Potato
The potato is the most common home grown vegetable, with a wide range of culinary uses.
Stubble Turnips
Stubble Turnips are a fast growing catch crop, suitable for autumn or winter feed.
Garden Guides
Swede
Swedes make an excellent high energy winter feed with low production costs.
Artichoke
The largest of the thistle family, the artichoke is a striking architectural beauty with a wonderful taste.
Asparagus
Once established, an asparagus bed can produce wonderful succulent spears for up to 20 years.
Aubergine
The aubergine is a species of nightshade and is botanically classed a berry.
Beetroot
Beetroot comes in many shapes and colours, red, yellow, white and ringed, and globe, cylindrical or flat.
Broad Beans
Broad beans are one of the easiest crops to grow with several varieties that can happily over-winter.
Broccoli & Calabrese
There are 2 main varieties of broccoli; calabrese broccoli and sprouting broccoli.
Brussels Sprouts
Brussels sprouts are a cultivar in the gemmifera group of cabbages, possibly developed in ancient Rome.
Cabbage
The Cabbage is probably one of the most commonly eaten vegetables worldwide.
Cauliflower
Cauliflower is low in fat and carbohydrates, but high in vitamin C and fibre.
Courgette
The courgette is botanically a fruit, but in culinary context it is treated as a vegetable.
Leaf Beet, Swiss Chard & Perpetual Spinach
Leaf Beet is also often commonly know as Swiss chard or perpetual spinach.
Maincrop Turnip
Maincrop Turnips make an excellent quality autumn/winter feed that are quicker to mature than swede.
Potato
The potato is the most common home grown vegetable, with a wide range of culinary uses.
Runner Beans
Runner Beans are a native plant of tropical America, originally introduced to the UK for the beauty of their flowers.