Dame Mary Berry, baker, cook and keen gardener, is as happy among the plants in her plot as she is among the pots and pans in her kitchen

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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

Karen Rogers and her husband Robert downsized to a townhouse and turned a small, paved courtyard garden into a little oasis