Editor Kim Stoddart reveals how to save money and boost your gardening with homemade soil improvers and protectors

Raised beds are often recommended for growing vegetables on heavy clay soil, as they improve drainage and allow you to control the soil conditions. I don’t have clay soil, but I do find them easier fo

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Define your borders and support border plants that tend to flop by using salvaged or recycled pieces of wood. Varying lengths and widths work well and you only need a few sound planks to tame and comp

Professor Buczacki is a borticultural expert, weiter and former chair of Gardeners Question Time

HAVE you ever taken a close look at your soil? I mean, a really close look? And if not, why not? Soil, compost, dirt, earth – whatever you want to call it, it’s often overlooked, and yet it’s one of t