‘everybody needs something they are passionate about’

The theme for this year’s National Allotments Week, from 11 to 17 August, is Wellbeing. Five women reveal how their lives have changed for the better by spending time on their plot

Andrew Oldham is busy bringing together vegetables and flowers to make the most of a sloping site

Creaky knees, rickety wrists, dodg y eyesight or an achy back? Worry not. So long as you have green fingers, you can still achieve miracles in the garden. Our experts show you how

IT’S midsummer, and this is usually the season when gardens are supposed to look their best – brimming with colour, buzzing with life, weed-free and calm, relaxing places for lounging with friends or

What better way to relax – and pick up some great ideas at the same time – than visiting a wonderful NGS garden?

The harvests are now coming in thick and fast. A quick check of last year’s records show that we gathered 150 per cent more in July than June; a significant contribution being greengages on the allotm