Martin Harvey
Martin Harvey is Managing Director at Marshalls. He passionately believes in delivering the best to our customers across every aspect of the business, from seed and plant variety selection, catalogue planning, personal customer service and first class growing, production and delivery standards.
He oversees Marshalls overall planning and direction ensuring that Marshalls delivers its customers the best quality gardening products at affordable prices. His career has focused largely on horticulture starting at Levington in 1973 where he was responsible for launching the Gro-Bag.
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01 February 2012 | Posted in Gardening by Martin Harvey
Yellow Courgettes are the Tastiest!I just overheard a conversation from my Technical Manager defending Yellow Courgettes. It interested me – as a keen Courgette grower and range selector – so maybe it interests you.
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04 October 2011 | Posted in Gardening by Martin Harvey
The Nitrogen Fixing Myth ExplodedChris Beardshaw on BBC, debunked the long-standing myth about nitrogen-fixing pea shoots, consigning it to nothing more than an old wives’ tale.
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20 June 2011 | Posted in Gardening by Martin Harvey
Greenhouse Gro-Beds.When we developed the Greenhouse Gro-Bed system last year, I intended it primarily as a winter growing system to provide vegetables and salads availability through the winter.
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08 April 2011 | Posted in Gardening by Martin Harvey
Check Your Gro-Sack WateringGiven the very sunny and dry weather this week, do make a point of ensuring that your potatoes have sufficient water – which is critical for optimum growth.
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05 April 2011 | Posted in General by Martin Harvey
Marvelous MarshmarvelMarshalls Strawberry Marshmarvel has been selected by major supermarkets as the number-one early Strawberry to have next year.
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29 March 2011 | Posted in Gardening by Martin Harvey
Heat-Prepared Onions ResultsI’ll be planting Hytech F1 and, of course Marshalls New Fen Globe - it was so timely to receive such a stunning photo from one of our customers, Sean Higgnett last week, showing how well his onions had stored over winter.
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01 July 2009 | Posted in Gardening by Martin Harvey
Potato Blight - Perhaps I Should Know BetterAfter a horrid year in 2007 with all the wet weather and a disaster with my salad and maincrop potatoes, I took care last year and sprayed my potatoes with Dithane from mid-June onwards to protect against Potato Blight.
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28 May 2009 | Posted in General by Martin Harvey
Top Ten Vegetables for ContainersContainer growing is taking gardeners by storm at the moment and with good reason. We have put together our top ten vegetables that can be grown in the small spaces with superb results.
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05 May 2009 | Posted in Gardening by Martin Harvey
Slugs - A Delicacy for Muscovy Ducks!Whilst in Somerset last week meeting the organisers of the Biggest Vegetable Championship, at the Bath and West Showground, Shepton Mallet, I called in on local garden celebrity Katherine Crouch.
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03 March 2009 | Posted in Gardening by Martin Harvey
Know Your Onions- and when to plant them!Yes – it’s time to get planting onion sets and shallot sets in milder areas, providing the soil is sandy or loam based.
