Horticultural aide memoire
No.4: Choose First Early potatoes
It is enlightening to grow something new in the kitchen garden each year. We all have our favourite First Early potatoes, but there are so many varieties available that it seems a pity not to try out a row of a different one beside the mainstay. Pentland Javelin is a good choice for sandy soils, and Home Guard seems to favour a clay loam.
In a good season, Epicure lives up to its name, generating murmurs of delight over its melting, buttery flesh, and the exhibitor is directed to the even tubers of Rocket, as waxy as you could wish.
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A well-connected rural playground with 23 acres on the edge of the South Downs National ParkOld House Farm is an impressive family home with a wealth of amenities that would inspire any rural passion.
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The UK gets its first ‘European stork village’ — and it's in West SussexAlthough the mortality rate among white storks can be up to 90%, the future looks rosy for breeding pairs in southern England.
