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Liven up summer borders with Undiscovered hardy annuals

Cheap and cheerful, quick and easy, annuals give ample blooms for your buck. If you look past the generic mixes, there’s a wealth of choice out there.

It's all in the seed mix

If you want to sow the perfect lawn, you need to think about how your lawn is used and make sure you pick the right seed mix for your plot.

How to grow... Seasonal baskets

Get ready for months of joyous jewel tones and prep some bright and bountiful baskets. Anne Swithinbank explains how to cultivate long-lasting balls of cascading colour

How to get ahead of the game!

FL Vanderplank looks at growing your own novelty chess pieces for the garden

How do I fight blight in toms?

Anne Swithinbank’s masterclass on: how to avoid tomato blight

Getting Your Roses Ready

Give them a hand as they return to growth

How To Create Your Own Cottage Garden

Brimming with blooms and filled with fragrance, this timeless classic appeals to the romantic in us all. Hazel Sillver reveals the plants and design tricks you need

Making Your Garden Wild And Wonderful

As he gears up to bring his special festival to the county once more, gardening writer and broadcaster Toby Buckland offers up some tips on making your garden that bit greener

Delightful Douneside

Some gardens are part of a fascinating story, none more so than Douneside in the quiet village of Tarland, Aberdeenshire. Freelance journalist Janice Hopper finds out more

THE ONLY RAISED BEDS YOU'LL EVER NEED

Free home delivery. Minutes to assemble. Last a lifetime.

BY POPULAR DEMAND

On Derby’s Ashbourne Road and District Allotments there seems to be no end to the demand for small spaces for newbie allotment gardeners to put down some roots, as Potty Plotter Elaine Crick explains

The essential sowing kit

Here is your basic must-have equipment for sowing in containers first

THE BUS STOPS HERE!

Derby’s Ashbourne Road and District Allotments has a claim to fame – it is home to three repurposed bus stops. Potty Plotter Elaine Crick explains

BRASSICAS ARE THE BEST

This month we feature the winner of the My Best Crop category in our 2019 Plotter of the Year competition. Meet green-fingered Carl Walters from West Sussex

Luxuriant Lupins

Think of lupins and you’ll probably think of flower borders. So you may be surprised to learn that a few lupins have long been used as food crops, as Sally Cunningham explains

ALL ABUZZ on the plot

It’s all go on the plot as Stephanie Hafferty starts sowing but finds time to listen to the birdsong and the busy bees

A CUE FOR THE GREAT OUTDOORS

You don’t need a greenhouse to grow delicious cucumbers. Colin Randel, member of the RHS Vegetable Trials Assessment Forum, reveals the best varieties for outdoor growing

Planting a hazel tree

They are good for wildlife and have many uses, says Ruth

The great parsnip challenge

Parsnips aren’t that easy to grow, says Val, as she explains some of the difficulties involved with this winter root crop

Food For Your Ears

We chat to online gardener Richard Suggett from Littlehampton, West Sussex, otherwise known as The Veg Grower Podcast.co.uk

The attraction of tree heathers

John N Anderson explains why tree heathers should be grown in more gardens

Fitting guttering to a shed

Correctly fitted guttering will ensure rainwater is channelled off your shed roof, says Tim

THE DISABLED GARDENER 'There's Always A Way To Grow Your own'

Andrew Oldham uses his disability to inspire his garden and explains how you can too

Long live the perennials

Rob Smith takes a look at vegetables that you plant once and then keep on cropping for a year or more

Prodigious Palms

Palm trees are not just a pretty picture, says Sally Cunningham, as she discovers that the flowers of the Chusan palm are actually edible

HOBBITS, HOBBITON AND HORICULTURE

In his antipodean peregrinations Martin Fish may not have stumbled on any hobbits, but he did discover their very English cottage gardens and plenty of fruit and veg

Samphire SALT OF THE EARTH

Though hard to come by commercially, samphire is a crop that you can grow yourself. KG reader Tom Hall-Martell explains

MAKE YOUR OWN Greenhouse

If your budget doesn’t stretch to buying a ready-made greenhouse, another option is to get busy and make one yourself. Joyce Russell shows you how

Grow tomatoes galore!

This month KG editor Steve Ott offers his top tips on growing a UK garden and greenhouse favourite, the tomato

How To Grow... Petunias

Profuse, fast-growing and bursting with colour, this mainstay of baskets and borders is a surprisingly versatile choice, says Anne