What started out as a chilly morning ended up with lovely warm sunshine We got a row of onions in (Sturon) – fingers crossed these will be ok as we have no idea what we’re doing when it comes to onions! The last time we had them they were already planted when we got the [...]

Big bag of onions were delivered by the postie today – we’ve got ‘Picasso’ shallots and ‘Sturon’ and ‘Golden Gourmet’ onions. The ‘Sturon’ we’ve grown before and we liked those a lot, so have high hopes for them. We’ve never grown ‘Picasso’ or any other shallots, so interested to see how they’ll turn out. And [...]

Had a voucher for Thompson & Morgan, so this morning placed an order for Garlic, Onions (Sturon & some free Corrado), Shallots (Picasso) and Raspberry Canes (Glen Ample). We had Sturon last year and they were great, as for everything else, I’m ordering ‘blind’ – they sounded good, but I have no experience of them [...]