An important season for Wilkin & Sons Ltd is Christmas and the factory is getting ready as Ken discovers
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The end of the picking season is coming and Tiptree farms are being prepared for the colder and wetter months
It’s time to pick and store the stone-fruits and it is interesting to see that the Tiptree growing season extends...
Ken visits the jam factory in Tiptree, Essex, to talk with farm manager, Andrey Ivanov and sees the latest strawberry…
As the heat of summer starts to shine bright conditions for strawberries to ripen get better and better. Different varieties...
Strawberry picking gets underway and Ken looks at some of the varieties being used by Tiptree
Ken looks at a spreading deciduous shrub sometimes known as Japanese Quince - Chaenomeles 'Nivalis' - has a large number…
Forsythia can have many flowers on each long stem, as long as the stems are allowed to develop
Fruit trees can be pruned during the winter months, but remember NOT stone fruit trees. Stone fruit trees require dry…
Ken looks at some of the issues associated with a grafted tree base on a contorted hazel