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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Tag: vegetables
Review: 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: 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 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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How to grow vegetables in containers
Grow your own is a big theme of BBC Gardeners’ World Live and ahead of the show I talked to . . .
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Win some Dalefoot Compost
Please note, this contest has closed. Like many gardeners, I don’t like using peat and over the years I’ve tried . . .
Read morePlants, history and contest plans
Gardeners in Cheltenham are hosting a plant fair and getting an insight into the history of vegetable growing. Lynda Warren will . . .
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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 . . .
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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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Top choices for growing potatoes
Potatoes are a space-greedy crop so growing the right variety is important. No one wants to tie up large areas . . .
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