Stephanie's Garden Blog

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.

With National Allotment Week in full swing, it's not the best time to discover that local authorities are reducing the size of alloment plots dramatically - but according to a recent report, that's exactly the case. Our horticulturist Martin Fiddes discovers more....

Although the school holidays have barely begun, you've no doubt already spotted the 'Back to School' banners emblazoned across windows - and when the kids eventually do go back, what exactly will they be eating? Horticulturist Martin Fiddes finds out more...

Top celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has inevitably turned his hand to gardening, and his new series - Jamie at Home - kicks off tonight on Channel 4 - and horticulturist Martin Fiddes will be watching!

Remember our recent post (July 27th) on school dinners and the way some go-ahead seats of learning were growing their own produce in school gardens?

Hot on the heels of my Master Composter course follows this press release, re-inforcing the importance of the initative and the role the partnership organisations play, along with publicising the fact that Harrod Horticultural now have a compost guru on board!