For many gardeners, rhubarb, along with tomatoes, courgettes and beans, is a garden staple – and it might well be one of the first plants introduced to the plot! There are so many reasons for this dec

Which soft fruit will give the biggest yield for my little plot? Raspberries are delicious, notably heavy cropping and are trained to posts and wires so they make good use of limited space. Although t

As the temperatures drop, everything seems to slow down, and while I’m happy for weeds to lose their enthusiasm, I’m pleased that brassicas and root vegetables welcome the chilled-out pace. Shorter da

November may bring frost but it’s the perfect month to plant and prune fruit trees, for a taste of summer that money can’t buy

Pea can be sown now, either to overwinter and harvest as pods in early summer or to harvest as pea shoots throughout autumn and winter. Pea shoots are the perfect crop for a tiny space and will produc

One of my favourite gardening memories was the aroma of the freshly picked raspberries, sitting in punnets in our gardener’s mess room in the fruit department at RHS Wisley. Despite being at least a c