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Amateur Gardening is proud to encourage its readers to work with nature. Sue Bradley discovers how increasing numbers of people are embracing organic methods of gardening

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We take a look at some common misconceptions in the world of horticulture When starting out growing your own, you tend to receive a lot of advice – lots of it good, some of it not so much! As a genera