Allotments are a vital, living part of our gardening heritage – and when they are threatened, it’s time to draw a line.

A sun-soaked holiday taking in some of the world’s most beautiful gardens is a lovely idea, given the growing year we’ve had – but only until you join up your thinking. I have waited long enough. I had hoped, given time, that some celebrated gardener would, during some queasy moment on deck, look out across […]

What do you get when you cross crowd funding with plant breeding? At the Sárvári Research Trust, it’s the chance for ordinary gardeners to have a stake in the future.

We’re told that whether or not to use garden chemicals is a personal choice. That may be so, but it needs to be an informed choice – and we’re not being told the whole story. 

At the end of an abysmal growing year, only one thing is certain: the familiar rhythms of gardening are gone for good.

It’s time to take cover: after another grey, sodden summer, the future for serious food growers looks a lot brighter under glass or plastic.

There’s no need to buy solutions to pest problems that nature can solve for us. The only real problem is how to sell this idea.

Make do and mend, learn to do without, pull your socks up and get stuck in: it’s time to cultivate some old-fashioned values in the garden.

With hosepipe bans now in place in many areas, we all need to start tapping into a more joined-up kind of gardening.

High-tech sunshine harvesting is all very well if you can afford it, but there’s an easier and more earth-friendly way of turning sunlight into energy right outside your back door.  

Letting the GM genie out of its biotech bottle hasn’t just changed day-to-day life on our allotments, it’s now taking over control of life itself. They’ll be here soon. The moment – preceded by a warning bleep – that the clinical, electronic voice announced, “Patent violation detected. Please submit immediately to your BeyondNature crop analyst […]