A gardener’s miscellany

IT’S easy to imagine the vegetable patch is winding down at this time of year – the tomatoes are ripening, courgettes are piling up, and the first leaves are beginning to yellow. But here’s something

THIS MONTH Squashes

Helping you get your best-ever fruit and veg

Broad beans: Start these seeds now and in a few months time you will be able to enjoy an early harvest. Cauliflowers: Sow early summer types now and place under a cold frame to offer them some protect

It’s here again: that most exciting time of year, when gardeners grapple with their willpower and try not to get too carried away as they place their spring bulb order. There are so many reasons why p

If you grow your own veg or have a friend with an allotment, you may find yourself with a marrow. A marrow is a cucurbit, which means that it’s from the same family as melons, cucumbers and squash – j