Smart guide

Kitchen gardens can work in big and small spaces and country or urban landscapes as these charming plots prove – here’s to a bumper crop

What to plant, grow, prune and buy this month for your great outdoors

Growing vegetables was my introduction to gardening when we created a tiny veg patch 14 years ago. While it sparked a career change into gardening, design and writing, growing vegetables has remained

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

Apply these simple principles to your plot for dazzling results!

The TV chef steps outside of the kitchen to share what she’s learned about her other passion – her garden