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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rocket is a hardy salad leaf, producing a good crop of peppery leaves. It is quick and easy to grow in pots or in the soil, and in a frame or greenhouse for clean winter salad. Harvest as a ...

One of the oldest known vegetables, humans have been eating peas for thousands of years. Freshly picked peas are incredibly sweet – but eat them quickly, the natural sweetness converts to starch quite ...

As with the three year crop rotations and five year crop rotations, we divide our plot up after allowing for the permanent beds of comfrey, asparagus and rhubarb etc. In this case into four beds or ...

Allotment associations are often joined with local gardening associations. They provide help and advice to the members of the association. Often they are completely responsible for the management of ...