I must admit that ‘potato soup’ doesn’t sound particularly exciting but trust me, it’s well worth making. This simple recipe doesn’t take long and the soup is delicious. The recipe produces eight good ...

Excellent sprouts about ready to start harvesting but problems developing with the potatoes in store so checking them over.

When we moved into our first house, many years ago now, I was really impressed by the house on the corner of the street. Behind a hedge the garden was filled with cauliflowers, cabbages and other ...

Villandry Potager Garden – note the use of red and green cabbages and leeks within the low box borders ...

Potager du Roi, Versailles By Paris Histoire – CC BY-SA 3.0 ...

This lovely, simple recipe for rowan and crab apple jelly and the accompanying photographs of making it submitted by Jacqui H, (JacsH on our forums). Jacqui lives in SW Scotland where rowans or ...

Sunday night the winds were gusting to over 60mph. Thanks to the Met Office we knew it was coming and thought we were ready for it. The plastic chairs on the patio were stacked and laid down so they, ...

Some years ago we moved to a new house which had a tiny suburban garden giving little room for growing vegetables, mainly a small herb bed and some salad crops. Then I realised there was an allotment ...

Home growing of mushrooms was not unusual in the inter-war years. During WW2 most gardeners used their time to grow basic food crops but after WW2 home mushroom growing enjoyed a resurgence. The ...

These fruit growing guides are designed to introduce you to the main facts needed when growing the individual fruits. They also link through to other relevant pages on the site. For example – there is ...

Most compound fertilisers will contain three elements essential for growth, NPK which stands for Nitrogen (N) Phosphorus (P) and Potassium (K). These elements help plants grow in different ways. An ...