{"id":418,"date":"2018-07-12T17:02:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T17:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/garden\/2018\/07\/12\/medwyn-williams-champion-vegetable-grower-meets-autopot-m-d-jason-ralph-smith\/"},"modified":"2023-06-02T13:58:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T13:58:31","slug":"medwyn-williams-champion-vegetable-grower-meets-autopot-m-d-jason-ralph-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/garden\/2018\/07\/12\/medwyn-williams-champion-vegetable-grower-meets-autopot-m-d-jason-ralph-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Medwyn Williams, champion vegetable grower meets AutoPot M.D. Jason Ralph-Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are very proud to announce that AutoPot Watering Systems and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canna-uk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CANNA<\/a>&nbsp;will be working with the extremely well renowned Medwyn Williams, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medwynsofanglesey.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medwyn\u2019s of Anglesey<\/a>. Medwyn, if you\u2019re not in the horticultural know, has won eleven Gold Medals, back-to-back at the UK\u2019s most prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rhs.org.uk\/shows-events\/rhs-chelsea-flower-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RHS Chelsea Flower Show<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24574\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24574\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24574 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/07\/Medwyn-Williams_eleven_time_RHS_Chelsea_Flower_Show_Gold_Medal_winner-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24574\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Above: Medwyn Williams &#8211; eleven-time RHS Chelsea Flower Show Gold Medal winner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24573\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24573\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24573 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/07\/Like_a_tapestry_of_nature-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Above: Like a tapestry of nature<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After retiring from the Chelsea show circuit Medwyn has, after nine long years, decided to re-appear. When AutoPot M.D. Jason Ralph-Smith visited him in Anglesey this June Medwyn explained that \u201cthere\u2019s something special about Chelsea, that makes me want to go back\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Jason says;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24576\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24576\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24576 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/07\/Next_up_hydroponic_growing_with_AutoPot_and_CANNA-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Above: Next up, hydroponic growing with AutoPot and CANNA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cTo say we at AutoPot, and myself personally, are excited to be working with Medwyn is an understatement, I\u2019ve personally followed his success over the years and to now be able to sit down with a true horticulturist is an absolute pleasure. Meeting Medwyn and his son Alwyn was probably one of the most enjoyable meetings I\u2019ve attended for years, both are very well versed in the plant world and were such fun to be around. The plants are stunning and the flavours to die for, especially the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardeningknowhow.com\/edible\/herbs\/mint\/caring-for-corsican-mint.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Corsican Mint<\/a>, a variety I had not heard of before, nor tasted but have now discovered that is is used to make creme de menthe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoving forward the idea Medwyn has is over the coming seasons is to perfect the art of growing his show vegetables hydroponically, a completely different method of application to what he is used to but with a little help from all concerned I\u2019m sure we\u2019ll get this true gentleman up to speed and producing a bountiful crop of show winning vegetables.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24572\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24572\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24572 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/07\/Colour_quality_and_size_wherever_you_look-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Above: Colour, quality and size wherever you look<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24578\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24578\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24578 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/07\/Vines_in_Medwyns_superb_Anglesey_greenhouse-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Above: Vines in Medwyns superb Anglesey greenhouse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are very proud to announce that AutoPot Watering Systems and CANNA&nbsp;will be working with the extremely well renowned Medwyn Williams, from Medwyn\u2019s of Anglesey. Medwyn, if you\u2019re not in the horticultural know, has won eleven Gold Medals, back-to-back at the UK\u2019s most prestigious RHS Chelsea Flower Show. After retiring from the Chelsea show circuit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/Medwyn_Main-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autopot.co.uk\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}