Grow with Joe.

A couple of weeks ago, my Garden Club had a speaker, Joe Maiden, who is the "Garden man" on Radio Leeds on Wednesday mornings. We had a really good evening, the room we use is quite small so we could only fit about 40 people. The atmosphere was good, Joe was and entertaining and informative Speaker. At the end, you could buy plants and talk to Joe.



We wanted to plant some fruit bushes at the back of the garage, because it is block paved they will need to go initially in tubs, but as they grow bigger they will need to be planted in something the size of the old black plastic dustbins we used before the wheelie bins came in.



We rang Joe and asked if we could visit his Nursery at Huby, and arranged that we went this morning. It is not a fancy garden centre, but a real working Nursery. Joe showed us round, told us what he was doing in various parts - mostly preparation and progergation work for next year.
He is very proud of what he does.



We bought four bushes from him, a black currant, a gooseberry, a logan berry and Raspberry.
It was agreed we would go back in February to collect some seed potato and rhubarb, there was another thing, but I cannot remember what it was!

It was a very enjoyable visit.