Navigation

Latest News

Downside’s Christmas Update
Check out our Christmas News posted 4th December...
Pumpkins
Richard decided to try and grow giant pumpkins this year; he could not have timed it worse – late frosts...
Bare-root and Root-balled hedging
We have started to get availability lists for bare-root and root-balled hedging. Lifting will not start for a week or...

Category Archives: Vegetables

Tomatoes at Downside Nurseries

Posted in: Salad, Vegetables | March 25, 2024 at 12:40 , by Downside Nurseries

Comments are closed

For those of you who have frost protection, the first tomatoes are potted now. We have 13 varieties again this year from cherry to beefsteak. Honeycomb (yellow cherry) and Nagina (plum) proved to be very successful, so we have repeated them. Maskotka, our long-standing basket variety, was not available, so...

Vegetable notes

Posted in: Vegetables | May 21, 2023 at 07:19 , by Downside Nurseries

Comments are closed

Many customers seem to be trying vegetable growing for the first time. Apologies to all of you seasoned and experienced gardeners but could we remind you that now is the time to plant your winter greens? Sprouts, Purple Sprouting Broccoli and winter cabbage go in now. Kale in a week...

Spinach, Broad Beans and The Coronation

Posted in: Vegetables | April 28, 2023 at 09:22 , by Downside Nurseries

Comments are closed

If you were thinking of making Coronation Quiche this summer, we have plenty of spinach and broad bean plants. Maybe not ready for the day itself but you could try it later and, with home-grown ingredients, it will taste even better. Here’s the link to The Royal Household website with...

Kale

Posted in: Vegetables | April 27, 2023 at 08:37 , by Downside Nurseries

Comments are closed

Frances Tophill mentioned perennial kale (Cottagers’ kale & Taunton Deane kale) on Gardeners’ World – a staple of her vegetable garden. We still have a few cuttings. It is a sterile hybrid, so never runs to seed and can be harvested all year round. The curly kale and Russian kale...

Planting Season (posted 28 April 2022)

Posted in: Annual Bedding, Vegetables | May 3, 2022 at 14:28 , by Downside Nurseries

Comments are closed

The main planting season for annual bedding is upon us. It is a good idea to buy ahead and harden off some of the more tender annuals before you plant. Half-hardy annuals can go out now. Do remember that even if we have warm days, the nights can be chilly,...