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With the promise of warmer weather and longer days, the spring gardening season gets increasingly busy as the weeks go…

It may still be cold outside, but there is no better time to start planning a garden for the kids….

Anyone with the luxury of a greenhouse in their garden will know the benefits of growing vegetables in a greenhouse:…

With a hint of spring in the air, it will soon be time to plant our more delicate plants outside…

Hop plants are great! You can grow them up trellises to create leafy backdrops to border plants; you can grow…

Valentine’s Day is coming up and for some that might be a reason to spend buckets of money on oversized…

Last year the ferocious winds that blew through the Mendips finally felled my rickety old fence so a sturdy new…

A few weeks after acquiring our allotment back in 2011, we planted four apple trees with the purpose of producing…

With temperatures low at this time of year, encouraging the kids to get out in the garden with you may…

It’s a new year and if, like me, this is the 100th time ‘start a new diet’ or ‘eat more…