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

Much as we all love to look at our garden plants, for me, the real joy in gardening has been about their wider usefulness. Whether it’s plants to eat and sustain us, heal us or to build with, they hav

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

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

Work your way through your borders, removing dandelion flowerheads before they get the chance to set seed. Flowers of dandelions are a useful source of early nectar for pollinators but if they are abl

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