Review: Square Foot Gardening: Growing Perfect Vegetables
It’s so disappointing to spend weeks carefully nurturing fruit and veg only to miss picking them at the right time. . . .
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Review: The Jam Maker’s Garden by Holly Farrell
Gluts are a way of life when you grow your own. True, staggering seed sowing of veg can help to . . .
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Review: Rosy Hardy – 25 Years of Chelsea
When it comes to column inches and television air time often it’s the garden designers at RHS Chelsea that get . . .
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Review: The Salad Garden by Joy Larkcom
I first encountered French dressing on a school trip to Paris. We were all puzzled by the idea of putting . . .
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Review: The Gardens of Japan by Helena Attlee
I’ve never been to Japan and, aside from Ishihara Kazuyuki’s Artisan Gardens at Chelsea, know little of the country’s gardens. . . .
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Review: The Thoughtful Gardener by Jinny Blom
Some years ago, I encountered a garden that has left a lasting impression. With its perfectly choreographed borders, striking design . . .
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Review: The Community Gardening Handbook and Grow by Ben Raskin
Aside from the ravages of slugs, the menace of ground elder and the weather, two topics often crop up in . . .
Read moreReview: My Life With Plants by Roy Lancaster
I first met Roy Lancaster when he led a guided tour of Plas Cadnant gardens as part of the North . . .
Read moreReview: A Little History of British Gardening
My father always used to say that if you hung onto something long enough it would eventually come back into . . .
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Review: Good Soil by Tina Raman, Ewa-Marie Rundquist & Justine Lagache
For many gardeners, feeding the soil is like the plumbing in a house, essential but frankly uninspiring. Indeed, the women . . .
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