Growing vegetables was my introduction to gardening when we created a tiny veg patch 14 years ago. While it sparked a career change into gardening, design and writing, growing vegetables has remained

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

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Helping you get your best-ever fruit and veg

As the long nights shorten, Mounton House garden quietly emerges from winter with delicate sprinklings of white narcissi, Scilla siberica and crocuses through the lawns. Daphnes fill the air with frag

The fact that gardeners are obsessed by the weather is hardly surprising. It governs just about everything we do – especially at this time of year when frosts can be lethal. The fact is that it matter