Helping you get your best-ever fruit and veg

Andrew Oldham explains how manures can boost your soil and suggests which ones might work best for you

This month, Lalage reflects on how she was a little too hasty in planting out pea seedlings, contemplates the benefits of companion planting and sets about bringing order and tidiness to her vegetable beds

As winter eases and spring beckons, longer days bring the garden to life – and your growing year starts here…

Toby explains how to take action now to stop weeds in their tracks

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