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I was on a shoot at Pippa's yesterday for the magazine, getting pictures for her vegetable trial series 'Veg with Pippa' and seeing how all her veg is coming along. It was a beautiful day but it's been a bit of a difficult year for gardeners thanks

hi really hope someone can help me here. at the bottom of our garden we have a veg plot. one big problem we have a badger that has decided to come and visit but is digging up out veggies. we had a fence put up going down the garden with concrete

Nothing beats the taste of freshly-picked sweetcorn in late summer and growing your own couldn't be easier. Sow your own seeds or buy young seedlings to plant now and grow them in a block on the veg plot. Or use them decoratively, planting them

'll definitely look out for a copy of Aly's book! cheersNige i have only been sowing in my garden for 2years now and it is very small but every inch of it it taken up with something. I love it i grow my own veg,fruit and herbs. i have lots if bees and insects

I work at sea 8 months of a year and my back garden consists of grey stone slate chips and decking. I have troughs and tubs of veg and herbs along the back frence I would like to have a row of mini-fruit tress that grow no more than 2.5m high

-fresh-fresh-food-supermarket.html   dmball, you are quite right.  The saying is 'carry the boiling water to the sweetcorn'.  In fact I find cooking sweetcorn in the microwave the best and certainly easiest; straight from the garden, or buy frozen kernels.  Ripen at home is just a lazy way

conifers on the other side of our shared fence, as this is the sunniest area of my garden I was thinking of starting a veg plot, but  a couple of you are saying it won't be good for veg.  Do you know how far away from conifer a veg plot should be and what

and sweet green way to fight pests and encorage wildlife.. more of this please. Try putting pots of marigolds in the greenhouse, you'll never have whitefly again. Also mix herbs in with the veg. I was going to have a separate herb garden but now I'll mix

my own fresh veg, and whilst I'm new to allotmenting, and considering half of it ended a foot under water with flooding, Its not put me off and we've grown lots of wonderful vegs, I look forward to Carol's veg slots and my friday evening update

addictive and has the added bonus of keeping you fit!it must be a sign of getting older..... James - just when did you post your blog?My garden disappeared under 12" of snow yesterday & now my winter veggies are unreachable! Having ordered this year's veg