Introducing our new columnist Dan: restaurateur and keen allotmenteer. This month, he’s sowing beetroot and carrots, and cooking with wild garlic and rhubarb

There are some vegetables that thrive in the cold, but unless you aspire to self-sufficiency Tom Coward recommends caution when sowing very early in the year. “It’s a mistake, although we always do it

Growing vegetables was my introduction to gardening when we created a tiny veg patch 14 years ago. While it sparked a career change into gardening, design and writing, growing vegetables has remained

When writer Sheila M Averbuch and her husband moved into their Pencaitland home in East Lothian over 20 years ago, the garden was little more than a flat upper lawn with a steep slope down to the bung

With Simon Caney, GN Editor

Steve Newland looks back on his allotment history -and his growing obsession with unusual tomatoes