Bare-root planting makes sense
Ask most green fingered gardeners, those with the dirt ingrained up their finger nails, and they'll tell you that now's a great time to plant. Getting hardy specimens in [...]
Garden Yourself Healthy in 2021
At a time of new beginnings, could I make the case that you include the garden in your resolutions for 2021? Perhaps you could set yourself the challenge of [...]
Wet days are best for seed sowing
Whenever there are rainy days on the menu, my thoughts turn to doing some more seed sowing. I’ve got a number of packets that my dear friend Matt Biggs [...]
Grow Some Sunshine – raising money for NHS heroes
These are challenging times for all of us, particularly having to conform to social isolation, but any gardener will tell you that their biggest consolation is being able to nurture [...]
Make fruit part of your family history
When I was a small child, my parents – who weren't blessed with a green finger between them – had a loganberry trained on a fence at the end of [...]