I like to try new varieties each year. Not new varieties of everything, just a few when something catches my eye. Well this ...

Excellent sprouts about ready to start harvesting but problems developing with the potatoes in store so checking them over.

When we moved into our first house, many years ago now, I was really impressed by the house on the corner of the street. Behind a hedge the garden was filled with cauliflowers, cabbages and other ...

Villandry Potager Garden – note the use of red and green cabbages and leeks within the low box borders ...

Potager du Roi, Versailles By Paris Histoire – CC BY-SA 3.0 ...

This lovely, simple recipe for rowan and crab apple jelly and the accompanying photographs of making it submitted by Jacqui H, (JacsH on our forums). Jacqui lives in SW Scotland where rowans or ...

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 ...

In the UK, allotments are small parcels of land rented to individuals usually for the purpose of growing food crops. There is no set standard size but the most common plot is 10 rods, an ancient ...

These fruit growing guides are designed to introduce you to the main facts needed when growing the individual fruits. They also link through to other relevant pages on the site. For example – there is ...

I’m totally convinced that they don’t make them like they used to. My 1976 Merry Tiller is built like a Panzer tank! Modern machines may be quieter and more efficient but the older rotavators are ...