Hi Jude I tried growing Bishop's Children from seed and they were really easy, produced strong well flowered plants in year 1 and small tubers. I saved the best ones but didn't think they were beefy enough to get much in the way of cuttings out of, so just replanted them next spring. They made huge ...

Thanks everyone for your input. Will go with the wood ash and get Kestals for earlies and try the new Sarpo ones for mains.

Sue

Our first chickens were hybrid layers raised by a commercial breeder and they never perched despite us trying the book advice for weeks at a time. Our latest lot are bantams raised by a private breeder who uses his own broodies to hatch and they have always perched. He reckons that if the chicks are...

Can anyone recommend new potato varieties that will cope with fairly heavy clay soil, are slug resistant and have some blight resistance. My allotment is close to the boundary hedge which appears to harbour the world's supply of slugs and blight seems to be getting earlier every year on our site. Al...