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Tomato growing tips

On 14/11/2012 in forum

Hi, I'm features co-ordinator on Gardeners' World Magazine and I’m writing a feature about the best ways to beat tomato blight and the best tasting tomatoes. I’d like your input. Growing very early-ripening tomatoes, like ‘Red Alert’, can often mean


Bonsai trees

On 16/06/2008 in Gardeners' musings

The world of gardening overflows with obsessions, such as giant vegetables, lawns, compost, cacti and many others.One of the most extreme gardening obsessions is the art of bonsai. I was always a bit dismissive of this particular obsession until I


May In Your Garden

On 02/06/2012 in forum

tomato plant shop is closed -have sold out of the surplus-Lord Sugar will be so proud.. Geoff well done, you are hired. These are a little weather battereed but........ Oh gorgeous Kate! Sorry about hogging the sun all day, it's been perfect gardening


Talkback: Planting snake's head fritillaries

On 12/10/2012 in forum

After seeing these on Gardeners World last week, I would really love to have a go at growing these. They look so pretty and delicate dancing about in the breeze. I will be honest, I haven't really given them a lot of thought before, but after seeing


Bindweed

On 10/08/2009 in Gardeners' musings

We recently asked Gardeners' World website and magazine readers around the UK to nominate their worst weed. One weed, it seems, crops up everywhere, topping the list in many regions: bindweed. (Readers in Scotland and northern England gave 'pride


Growing and eating apples

On 12/11/2010 in Grow & eat

Every autumn, Gardeners' World magazine Editor Adam Pasco and Deputy Editor Lucy Hall bring their surplus of home-grown apples into the office. Adam shares a number of dessert varieties, while Lucy delivers the cooker, 'Bramley'. They are all very


Growing veg in containers

On 15/04/2011 in Grow & eat

The Gardeners' World Grow Yourself Healthy campaign is all about growing your own fruit and veg - no matter how much space or experience you have. So it's great that one of the five growing plans supplied is dedicated to growing in containers. My


Squirrel damage to Brussels sprouts

On 31/01/2008 in Unassigned

I've had a great few years growing an extraordinary range of vegetable crops for my series 'Veg With Pippa' in Gardeners' World Magazine. The results of my vegetable trials have often been fascinating, and on more than one occasion I've been


John Cushnie remembered

On 04/01/2010 in Gardeners' musings

at the gardening world around him. Those wry comments, quick wit and observation added massively to the appeal of Gardeners' Question Time. There was no messing with John, who said things straight as he saw them.His plant and horticultural knowledge added


Garden wildlife and autumn tidying

On 13/10/2010 in Wildlife

In the latest issue of Gardeners' World magazine, I go head-to-head with James Alexander-Sinclair by suggesting that gardeners are doing more harm than good by too much autumn tidying. I just know that all this anti-gardening talk is going to get me


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