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Shall I tell you how my pests and diseases fetish started?” asks Pippa Greenwood, with typical ebullience. “I was probably five years old and walked past a greengrocer that had an amazing array of ora

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The production of rice, baked beans and melons in the UK suggests a rosy future for the UK’s food self-sufficiency. But, asks Michael Barker, are such crops a sustainable solution or just an exercise in what’s possible?

For millions, a visit to the garden centre is part of life’s rhythm. According to the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA), 68 per cent of adults made up the 203 million visits to the UK’s 1,500 gar

Organic gardening helps predators such as ladybirds, which ...