Think luscious blackcurrants, raspberry canes or new rose bushes - now is the perfect time to try bare root planting, saving plastic and money, writes Sarah Brown in this month's GYO Wicked Leeks…
By Sarah Brown - 1st October 2021
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Store your summer bounty of fruit, root veg, beans and potatoes and keep your cupboards full of homegrown produce over winter, writes Sarah Brown in this month’s GYO column.
By Sarah Brown - 1st September 2021
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If the billionaires really wanted to impress us, they’d grow courgettes in space and take up gardening, writes Louise Gray.
By Louise Gray - 24th August 2021
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Grow what you like to eat and make friends with your allotment neighbour, writes Sarah Brown in this month’s gardening column ahead of National Allotment Week.
By Sarah Brown - 4th August 2021
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Clever planting and easy gardening hacks can help make growing your own food more fun and productive, while connecting us to something more important, finds Nina Pullman.
By Nina Pullman - 30th July 2021
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For us earthy gardeners, a mulch is one of the best ways to take care of your precious soil, writes Sarah Brown in July’s gardening column.
By Sarah Brown - 1st July 2021
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Garden retailer becomes the first to commit to 100 per cent peat-free compost after attention grows on the urgent need to protect peatlands and store carbon.
By Rebecca Smithers - 15th June 2021
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Slugs and aphids are every gardener’s worst nightmare and can ruin the best-laid growing plans – this month’s GYO column reveals how to deal with them the organic way.
By Sarah Brown - 1st June 2021
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Government ramps up efforts to restore nature with new legal targets for species abundance, a ban on peat compost to gardeners and rewilding plans.
By Nina Pullman - 19th May 2021
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Author of the National Food Strategy Henry Dimbleby has said he is “very worried” that new trade deals jeopardise the chance for a sustainable food transformation in the UK.
By Nina Pullman - 22nd October 2021
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This Halloween Louise Gray is making sure her pumpkin is for eating, not just carving
By Louise Gray - 21st October 2021
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New data suggests Brits are eating less red but more white meat, despite campaigns seeking to inform around soy in poultry feed linked to deforestation.
By Nina Pullman - 21st October 2021
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Make your own Halloween-themed seasonal feast with these recipes for pumpkin fritters, spiced curry or warming salads, or try madeleines with pumpkin custard and cinnamon meringue.
By Emily Muddeman - 21st October 2021
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This week in the polytunnels, we’ve finished picking the very last cherry tomatoes, which means I can no longer pretend to myself that it’s still summer.
By Ed Scott - 21st October 2021
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Wrongly associated with the effects of marijuana, hemp is a highly sustainable crop that can be used for food, textiles or building materials. We find out more.
By Wicked Leeks - 15th October 2021
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