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Anne explains how to have sweeter gooseberries and gets started with mushrooms

Lucy covers some of the most important jobs of the fortnight ahead

Clare Hunt muses on productive uses for the oak tree’s seasonal bounty

This allotment staple is the perfect crop to see you through the winter months – what’s more, it tastes even sweeter after a frost, so you can store your roots in the ground! It is best to start with

In 1993 Sarah and Chris Vermont moved from Brixton, London, to Hungerdowns in Essex, an old farmhouse dating back to 1600 with a Georgian front added in 1757. In the garden there were existing hedges,