When we moved into our first house, many years ago now, I was really impressed by the house on the corner of the street.

A potager garden is a type of kitchen garden that mixes both edible and ornamental plants in a beautiful, organized way.

Greenhouse repaired after storm damage, Pruning the back border. Lots of shredding and found a birds nest in the bush ...

Some years ago we moved to a new house which had a tiny suburban garden giving little room for growing vegetables, mainly a small herb bed and some salad crops. Then I realised there was an allotment ...

Potatoes are unusual in the vegetable world in that they actually do better with a pH between 5.5 and 6.0 against the preferred 6.5 to 7.0 of most else. Apart from anything else the somewhat acid soil ...

True spinach is a bit more demanding to grow in its need for cooler weather than perpetual spinach but its taste is superior. The gardener can grow it as a main crop or pick it young for use as baby ...

It was heavily promoted in the WW2 ‘Dig for Victory’ campaign as part of the standard cropping plan which was designed to provide a family’s vegetable needs from a standard allotment plot. This crop ...

Many of us have a few culinary herbs growing in our gardens, but would you like to grow 14 really useful herbs in a small space and learn how to use them for your own health, beauty and well-being?

Saving your own seed will obviously save you money on buying in seed from the merchants. However, seed saving also enables you to select for the best plants to grow in your area, on your soil.

Show grower John Trim has won the national championship with his onions. In this first of two articles on growing large onions for show, he reveals the secrets of cultivating and staging large ...

Potato dry rot is, thankfully, a fairly rare problem. The skin of the tuber becomes wrinkled and discoloured at one end. This becomes more pronounced and concentric rings of discoloured wrinkles ...

Apple trees are reasonably easy to cultivate. Choose a variety to suit your location, space, and needs. They can be grown along a fence, as a cordon or espalier/fan; or as a stepover, trained along a ...