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.

Jostaberry is a cross between a blackcurrant and gooseberries. It forms a very vigorous spineless shrub, growing up to 1.8-2m tall and a similar size across, and is self fertile so only one need be ...

Brussels Sprouts were a popular vegetable in Belgium, hence the name. They are delicious if grown and cooked correctly – see Brussels sprouts recipes and are an excellent source of vitamins C, K, B12, ...

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 ...

The Dewpoint Cabinet is a completely self-contained unit only requiring connection to mains electricity. It will provide the ideal environment for the germination of seeds & the fast rooting of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The traditional paraffin greenhouse heater had a number of advantages but now suffer from the problem that obtaining the fuel at reasonable cost has become very difficult. At one time every town had ...

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?

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 ...