Stephanie's Garden Blog

I've been putting my Master Composter knowledge to good use recently with a visit to Sir John Leman High School in Beccles, Suffolk - where I extolled the virtues of composting in schools to 15 interested (at least I think they were interested!) teachers.

Who would of thought that a delivery of contaminated manure to an allotment site in Wakefield would hit the national headlines?

With the soaring popularity in growing your own vegetables and gardening in general, it's hardly suprising that manure is a most sought after commodity!

Can you remember those early days of vegetable growing when you couldn't tell a spade from a shovel, a cucumber from a courgette and thought a propagator was a kind of crocodile? Martin Fiddes looks back...

The Consumer Council for Water has produced a checklist of water saving ideas following predictions of another long, hot - and dry - summer.

It's always good to find out what the nation's gardeners are up to, and although not quite on the scale of a Gardener's World roadshow, I do occasionally get an insight into what plans others are drawing up.

Remember last month I brought you some updates of what we've been up to in our own Harrod Horticultural Kitchen Garden?

Being a Master Composter, you could say compost-wise I've seen it, done it and got the T-shirt - and now, quite literally, I have!

Following on in our recent series of Kitchen Garden overflow news, Sharon has advised me she's been busy planting artichokes.