For many gardeners, rhubarb, along with tomatoes, courgettes and beans, is a garden staple – and it might well be one of the first plants introduced to the plot! There are so many reasons for this dec

FOOD STORIES

Dundee is famous for being the birthplace of the commercial development of marmalade in Scotland. The widely accepted story claims that in the 18th century, a Scottish grocer named James Keiller bough

THIS MONTH Christmas cake

One of my favourite gardening memories was the aroma of the freshly picked raspberries, sitting in punnets in our gardener’s mess room in the fruit department at RHS Wisley. Despite being at least a c

Which soft fruit will give the biggest yield for my little plot? Raspberries are delicious, notably heavy cropping and are trained to posts and wires so they make good use of limited space. Although t