Simon akeroyd’s flavour garden jerusalem artichokes

Helping you get your best-ever fruit and veg

Helping you get your best-ever fruit and veg

Mahonia x media ‘Winter Sun’ Forgive me please because I have, in my youth, been a bit sneery about mahonias. I recognise that this was a mistake as they have an awful lot in their favour: colour at a

Growing the Good Life is especially rewarding as we start to prepare for winter celebrations. Not only can we harvest food for the feast, but also berries, seedheads and foliage for festive decoration

A Victorian favourite, both the leaves and flowerheads ...

There is something about the frosty crunch of the hard frozen ground as I walk in the garden in December that makes me think of gooseberries. Perhaps it’s partly because of the goose bumps on my skin