Vegetable Growing & Showing Articles

Vegetable Growing and Showing Articles

by Medwyn Williams, MBE FNVS National Chairman of the NVS

Medwyn Williams at Chelsea Flower Show

Medwyn Williams MBE FNVS
National Chairman of the NVS

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These articles originally appeared on Medwyn's of Anglesey the web site of Medwyn Williams which includes an online shop where you can buy his vegetable seeds, books and sundries.

Medwyn Williams is best known for winning ten gold medals in a row at the Chelsea Flower Show. As well as National Chairman of the NVS, he is also President of the Welsh Branch of the NVS and a member of the Fruit and Vegetable Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society.

He has kindly made available over 400 of his weekly articles covering a period of nine years, which we are adding to this site.

They provide a fascinating insight into his methods, comments on vegetable shows, judges and judging as well as propogation, disease prevention and management.

We are listing them by the year of publication with a short description of each article.

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Growing and Showing Vegetables with Medwyn Williams over the years

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