In an extract from her new book, The Productive Garden , Stephanie Hafferty explains how to save money and use traditional wisdom for homemade nasties-free loveliness

What to plant, grow, prune and buy this month for your great outdoors

REAL readers' gardens!

Helping you get your best-ever fruit and veg

Skip the supermarket and see how easy it is to grow the most nutritious crops for heart, brain and immunity health, right on your own doorstep

Planting schemes should never stand still, so let’s reassess, reshape and reinvigorate