The company has its roots back in 1976 when Billy Logan took over his family’s 40-acre smallholding, expanding the vegetable business he had started in his parents’ garden at 14. Oliver told the ABC it took “a lot of work” to grow the the enormous Cucurbita, which required careful pruning, fertilising, and soil testing. With the help of his partner, Kevin, Taylor grows a wide array of flowers at his farm in Glanmire, County Cork, Ireland. Chosen by Picture Editor Sarah Edwards, she recommends this book for both gardening beginners and those looking to boost their skills and knowledge. They require little attention and will provide you with a variety of flavours, colours and textures to enjoy in stir fries and salads.

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We were established by a visionary group of growers in 1969 as the Processed Vegetable Growers Association. There are huge numbers of vegetables that can be sown now but keep track of where and when you plant your seeds. Fortey still uses tricks his father taught him, such as putting his marrows under a fishing umbrella to keep them dry. When I first saw giant vegetables, I thought the people who grew them must be absolutely nuts,” says Gerald Short, 52, a record-company owner from Watlington in Oxfordshire. Australian gardeners, who tend to grow pumpkins to eat, usually favour Australian developed varieties like Queensland Blue, Jarrahdale, and Ironbark.

Written by a professor of the history of biology, this coffee-table book from Taschen features hundreds of botanical illustrations from across the centuries and continents. The organisation is governed by a Board of Directors drawn from all sectors of the horticulture industry.

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It not only explains the conditions each plant needs to be grown well, but also recommends how you can use herbs for food and wellbeing. Medwyn himself is a fond user of the automatic irrigation equipment and encourages all growers to add it to their artillery’s. Chris notes that there was a turning point at the end of the 1990s, when they had the opportunity to take on a contract to provide direct to Tesco and Co-op. Williams has seen onions filled with putty, and carrots with orange floor polish, to disguise the fact they were rotten.It weighed in at a whopping 867kg, beating the previous record for Australia’s heaviest pumpkin of 743kg, also held by Oliver. British Growers provides its members with a centralised shared administrative, accountancy, book keeping service, public relations and event management services. DGM Growers is part of Fresca Group Ltd, one of the most trusted names in the fresh produce industry. It's easy to get carried away when looking through seed and plant catalogues, so make sure you grow only what you really like, keeping experiments to a minimum.