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The Great Burgon & Ball Staff Marrow Growing Competition
Aim: to grow the heaviest marrowKit bag provided to all staff:1 x Home Allotment Planting bagseedling labelsmarrow seedssimple instructionsWeigh-in:Friday 4th September 2009Prizes:1st £752nd £503rd...
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Winter Salads
Can it really be possible? Salad leaves all winter through? Well it has to be worth a try. A quick scan of the seed company catalogues will give you more choices than you can shake a stick at. I...
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Onions & Garlic
Onions & garlic - the stalwarts of 'over-wintering' planting. Overwintered veg go in now - about 4 months early, to give them a head start in the new year. Given that it's not going to get your...
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Winter Salads are Growing
Should have posted this a little while back....these pictures were taken mid November after the seeds had been in for 3 weeks. A huge difference between the rates of growth. Have already started using...
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Something Jumping in our Winter Salads
Maurice and Doris (resident cats) are the prime suspects for the skullduggery in the Planters......suspicious hollows in the middle of the planters, squashed seedlings.....arghh, whats a gardener to...
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Progress on Winter Salads
It's been a while since our last update and some things have been growing well and some things have been, well, stationary!The star of the show has been the Texel Greens - a jam packed Planter full of...
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A Tomato House
The beautiful new Tomato House (ok it's just a regular greenhouse) has arrived to offer the Burgon & Ball tomato plants protection from sea winds (and hopefully the blight that has afflicted us so...
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Photographic Progress of Winter Salads on Valentines Day
Here is the current state - photographs in order are: Texel Greens, the runaway winner - delicious and keeps coming, a dead cert for next winter, Corn Salad, doing well and an interesting sprinkler for...
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Getting busy in the Tomato house
I find it almost impossible to throw a living plant away - even if it is a teeny weeny seedling, it's got potential. And if it hasn't got much potential then it's worse because it's a challenge. So as...
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A Blank Canvas for a new Garden – (a posting from Nicola in the design...
We moved into our flat in October, and until now, have not done anything in the garden, but with the weather being bright and sunny last weekend we felt that it was time to get outside and make a...
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Cutting back and Composting
Just when it seemed that nothing was ever going to start growing we get a few days of a little more warmth and there's action all round. Poor sedum pushing it's way through all that old dead...
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The Hawley Tool Collection at Kelham Island
The variety of tools in production in the earlier parts of the last century was extra-ordinary. Burgon & Ball alone produced over 90 different patterns of hoe head - pretty much one for every...
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It's time to get sowing (a posting from Maria in Sales Admin and her husband...
Has spring finally arrived? The woodpeckers in our nearby woods are active - their drumming clearly audible over the sound of the neighbours labouring lawnmowers! The daffodils are late and the tits...
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Final round up of Winter Salads
The warmer weather we had a couple of weeks ago has sent the last of the winter salads bolting skywards. It was time to dig out my favourite winter providers - Texel Greens and Corn Salad (Lambs...
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Impossibly beautiful - the asparagus pea
Have you heard of it?Almost certainly you won't have seen it in the supermarkets.Apparently it's a pea plant, with pods that are eaten whole when about 3-5cm long and it tastes like asparagus. Ticking...
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Room for Flowers in the garden
A dull corner of the patio outside my kitchen window had been depressing me for weeks. Time to do something about it, I thought at the weekend - surely the last frosts have gone (as I write I can hear...
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Tomatoes setting
Isn't it amazing - from a packet of seedsto thisin just 10 weeks.Plants are flowering away like mad and the first fruits are just starting to set.Tomatoes being almost my very favourite things in the...
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Back from Chelsea
A highlight of our year - the Chelsea Flower Show - and what a year it was, apart from some rain on Saturday and temperatures a little too hot for plant comfort on Press Day, it was the most perfect...
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After Derby Day
Gardening lore has it that the time to trim topiary is after Derby Day. We're often asked about the significance of this timing - the reality is that it's nothing more equine than that the likelihood...
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The best Birthday Cake Ever
Yesterday was my birthday and in time honoured office tradition, my brilliant comrades in arms burst out of the kitchen with a blaze of candles and a lusty rendition of the classic song.Knowing that...
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Burgon & Ball's Yellow Book Opening
This Sunday is the first open day under the National Gardens Scheme for one of the gardens in the Burgon & Ball stable - this one home of our Chairman Peter Jackson. Peter is completely mad about...
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Grow Your Own makes an appearance at Glastonbury
Known more for it's music, headlining superstars and wellington boots, this year's Glastonbury festival celebrated it's 40th anniversary, by departing from the traditional and welcoming not only the...
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5-A-Day Garden at Hampton Court
Our 5 A Day Garden, which has been delighting visitors to the RHS Wisley Plant Centre since April of this year, moved to Hampton Court last week to entertain and hopefully inspire, the 150,000+...
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Spud Harvesting Time for our South East Sales Representative and his special...
Jason writes......I have always grown veg from an early age but mostly concentrated on tomatoes, marrows and runner beans. Now with a 3 year old in the household we decided to build a raised bed and...
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Vindication at Last !
Stuart from the Marketing Dept writes ...I’ve not really ever been much of a gardener ( what an admission), I dabble a bit and definitely start the season with good intentions but as the year goes on I...
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