Help your indoor plants to thrive during the ...

Deter birds from pecking out your garlic by scattering twiggy prunings over the soil where the cloves are planted. Carefully place the prunings inbetween cloves, put back any that have been disturbed

Stefan Buczacki

Long for fruit trees? Grow rich pickings without a vast outdoor space...

TIMELY PRUNING

Can I grow persimmons in the UK? Persimmon (Diaspyros kaki), aka kaki and Sharon fruit, need a hotter than average summer in Britain and the few trees at Wisley did very well indeed this summer. As ho