Getting the vegetable garden ready for spring

If you want to grow your own fruit and vegetables on an allotment, in a vegetable patch, or a kitchen garden, preparing the soil for planting is really important. I've got less than a couple of hours a week to spare, so I've been doing it a bit at a time over winter. But it's not too late to start now either. Here's what I've been doing to ensure a great harvest later this year...

Ideas for ordinary gardeners from a visit to an extraordinary garden - Stourhead

Can ordinary gardeners learn anything useful from visiting such an extraordinary garden as Stourhead?

 

How to plant bulbs - A Beginner's Guide

Bulbs do nearly all the work for you, it's the simplest way to grow plants of all!

If you only have room for one pot, you have room to grow bulbs, and if you want a low maintenance garden, this could be the answer.