Potato harvesting periods explained:

Broad beans: Start these seeds now and in a few months time you will be able to enjoy an early harvest. Cauliflowers: Sow early summer types now and place under a cold frame to offer them some protect

IT’S easy to imagine the vegetable patch is winding down at this time of year – the tomatoes are ripening, courgettes are piling up, and the first leaves are beginning to yellow. But here’s something

Lucy explains how to make the most of the next few weeks

Helping you get your best-ever fruit and veg

There’s something deeply satisfying about harvesting your own fruit and veg: a vindication, if you like, of all the work that went into sowing and growing them. I still love the words of the harvest h

I ‘summer pruned’ my apples and pears in July and they have started to send out shoots -should I remove them? Summer pruning is somewhat tricky, especially in a summer like this. The rather broad advi