Ross Pearson extols the happiness that comes from learning and embracing traditional skills

Mary Keen visits Garden & Wood, the mecca for dedicated gardeners who prefer using tools made in the 1940s

Helping you get your best-ever fruit and veg

Helping you get your best-ever fruit and veg

Oak Swill Baskets, small £130, medium £160, Freight; Joppari Secateurs, £239, and Tsubo Leather Holster, £48, both Niwaki. For all stockist information, turn to page 108. Facing page: Pine Hot Water B

There is no doubt that 2026 will be different. As the year ends in the garden that I’ve created and tended over the past 23 years, a new challenge is waiting in the wings. We are moving from the chalk