Growing the Good Life is especially rewarding as we start to prepare for winter celebrations. Not only can we harvest food for the feast, but also berries, seedheads and foliage for festive decoration

Helping you get your best ever fruit and veg

Parsnips roots will have reached full size by now, so you can begin harvesting them whenever needed. To get them out in one piece, loosen the soil around the roots with a garden fork beforehand, and i

Mahonia x media ‘Winter Sun’ Forgive me please because I have, in my youth, been a bit sneery about mahonias. I recognise that this was a mistake as they have an awful lot in their favour: colour at a

REAL readers' gardens! Iona Chisholm A developing family ...

Christmas starts late for us here at Longmeadow, around about the 20th of December, as two of my children have birthdays in December, and when they were little it seemed only right they enjoyed their