Stephanie's Garden Blog

Found an interesting article in the Daily Mail last week which seems to indicate that recycling and composting are starting to become big business - the worm has turned!

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Imagine a typical scene at the local allotments. Older men wearing caps and clad in their favourite gardening gear, gathered together in a ramshackle shed plonked next to an overgrown plot discussing how great it is to escape the house and wife, is probably the picture your mind conjures up. But things are very different these days...

Garden Vegetables You can sometimes get a suprise when lifting root crops - there might be a record breaker lurking under the soil surface or alternatively, you might unearth something you didn't quite expect!

The Met Office, one of the world's leading authorities on weather and environmental issues, have published their forecast for spring in the UK - and it looks like we're in for warm and wet weather, writes Martin Fiddes.

Potato growers across the country – both amateur and those whose livelihoods depend on a good harvest – are still coming to terms with a disastrous 2007 season, where summer floods and widespread blight combined to decimate crops, explains horticulturist Martin Fiddes.

The three shire counties of Hereford, Gloucester and Worcester have a rich agricultural and horticultural history, celebrated by the ever-popular Malvern Autumn Show. Martin Fiddes finds out more...

A quick rummage around a typical gardener's shed will uncover various forms of derris, the well-known organic insecticide - but all that is set to change next year with the proposed outlawing of the product. Martin Fiddes explains more...

The latest in the series of Kitchen Garden Grow Your Own Veg events, held at the Royal Horticultural Society's northernmost gardens at Harlow Carr, has proved to be another resounding success. Our horticulturist Martin Fiddes filed this report from the event.