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

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

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

Sow courgette and squash seeds now so you’ll have seedlings ready to plant outside in early summer. Fill pots or large module trays with peat-free multi-purpose compost. Place one seed in each pot, ab

It’s time for sowing, planting alpine containers and living screens and tidying up old growth

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