Pest focus: slugs

One of the branches of my ‘Victoria’ plum has gone silvery – is this silver leaf disease? There are two kinds of leaf silvering in plums; false silver leaf which is seldom fatal and the very common an

Give your soil a boost with an easy, homegrown crop of organic matter

Editor and resilient-gardening expert Kim Stoddart shares natural methods to help you create a garden that is truly alive and full of hope and joy

With AG’s gardening expert Ruth Hayes

■ The Greenhouse Book by Tom Brown was published earlier this year and is full of advice on maintenance, plants to grow, pests and diseases and constructing your own greenhouse. (Dorling Kindersley, £

How can I keep my tomatoes safe from pests and diseases? One of the most common diseases to affect tomatoes is blossom end rot. This is identifiable by the large, circular, discoloured patches that ap