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centre. The latter turned out to be an annual chrysanthemum: 'Eastern Star'. All of the above are easy to grow and will also help attract vital pollinators to your vegetable crops.There's still time to get dahlias started now and get a head start

not have given you the eyes or hair you wanted, but there is an easy way to check if you score high on the taste bud lottery.Food writer, Glyn Christian’s fascinating book How to Cook Without Recipes, gives a fun way to check on the number you have. He says

'Autumn Bliss', one of the most popular raspberry cultivars, the other half has 'Tulameen'. Both bear fruit with excellent flavour and are heavy croppers. If you don't already grow any on your plot, it's well worth doing so. Raspberries are easy to grow

neighbour are juicy and sweet, and better suited to eating raw, but what I'm after has a more bosque-like quality to it.If you find a blackberry you do like, they are easy to propagate by tip layering. In the summer you take one end of the blackberry shoot

some granular fertiliser on the soil (organic ones are available).Shallots are surprisingly easy to grow and very rewarding. I'd never want to be without them in the kitchen. One of my mainstays is a salsa that I serve whenever a meal needs a little

an allotment or know anyone who grows good quality artichokes, the best things to do is to ask them for an offset, which is the only way of ensuring an exact same copy.Dividing artichoke plants is easy - just take a sharp spade and splice down one

form a redcurrant National Collection. Home-made redcurrant jelly is easy to make and its flavour is a revelation - you will never return to shop bought again. If you're short on space, redcurrants can easily be trained to grow on a single stem which