Early days at Nags Hall

How times have changed Knights Garden Centres are celebrating 75 years of trading; a significant achievement in an age of take-overs and mergers, when companies appear and disappear in the blink of an eye. I have been asked to write because, to quote Richard Knight, I have been working there ‘almost since the beginning’. While…

Rotovating in a tight spot

One of the first jobs I did when I started at Knights was rotovating. There was an old Howard Gem rotavator, a big orange beast with rotating blades at the front and two big wheels at the back. It seemed huge to me at the time but not impossible to manoeuvre, after all it had…

I’m Geoff Stebbings

“You can’t always believe what you read (and there is a lot of nonsense spread about gardening) but anything on here will be learned from experience – I have always believed that you should only write or talk about what you know”