Review: Haxnicks Garden Maypole
The first of May and, appropriately, I’ve been setting up the Haxnicks Garden Maypole in my garden and dreaming of . . .
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Tag: grow your own
Review: Zero-Waste Gardening by Ben Raskin
A vegetable garden doesn’t seem the obvious place to fight climate change but in Zero-Waste Gardening Ben Raskin demonstrates that . . .
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Review: Grow Your Own with Pippa Greenwood
Want to grow your own veg but don’t know where to start? I was invited to trial a scheme run . . .
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Review: Learning With Experts gardening course
I’ve spent the past few weeks back in school. Not the traditional behind the desk type and not struggling with . . .
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Putting tiger nuts to the test
As a gardening journalist, I’m used to receiving all sorts of unexpected things to trial but one that stood out . . .
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Hits and misses of the 2017 garden trials
One of the delights of gardening is trying something new and I’ve been given a whole range of things for . . .
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Tomatoes: tried and tasted
It’s been a fantastic year for tomatoes. After last season’s blight-hit summer, I’ve had a bumper crop, managed to dodge . . .
Read moreReview: Tiny Garden, Huge Harvest by Caleb Warnock
There’s a commonly held view that growing veg is possible only if you have a large garden or access to . . .
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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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Tomatoes – a growing addiction
If I could grow only one crop it would be tomatoes. Little else has the variety or sums up summer . . .
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