Start your own compost heap

As your garden starts to come to life with buzzing bees and singing birds, Danielle Simpson, sales director at Pye Homes, shares some simple tips on how to create and maintain an eco-friendly garden.

Even if you’ve prepared your soil perfectly for sowing or planting out your fruit and veg, a little bad luck could be all it takes to leave you with fragile-looking plants. Nature is a fickle creature

Add drama to your garden with potted exotics. Soak the plant, in its original pot, in some not-too-cold water. Then move the new, empty, pot into position; this saves you doing so when it’s full of he

Wood chip makes a good mulch if composted ...

I’m feeding the crops now so that they can feed me later!

Garden Organic’s research manager Dr Anton Rosenfeld shows you how to better appreciate your weeds and explains how they can signify garden conditions