Stephanie's Garden Blog

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.

There's never been a better time to start growing your own fruit and vegetables at home says our horticulturist Martin Fiddes.

Have you been watching Alan Titchmarsh's latest offering on BBC TV - 'The Nature of Britain'?

The Royal Horticultural Society's Britain in Bloom competition results for 2007 have been announced - and it's good news for East Anglia, reports Martin Fiddes.

Growers in the West Midlands and parts of Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire - whose crops have been devastated by the severe summer floods - are now facing up to possible financial ruin.

RHS Harlow Carr are hosting the latest in a series of their popular Grow Your Own Veg Events on Friday August 31st, this time with the topical theme of harvesting to the fore.

One of this season's big success stories at the Kitchen Garden has been the new trailing courgette plant, Black Forest. This cucurbit leviathan is rapidly taking over the greenhouse at the garden and it's certainly a plant we'll be welcoming back next year reports Martin Fiddes.

In gardens and allotments all around the country, there's one plant that will almost certainly be flourishing this summer - every gardener's favourite, the tomato.