Tayberry (Rubus fruticosus x ideaus) is a cross between a blackberry and a red raspberry, and is named after the River Tay in Scotland. It was patented in 1979. If there is only space to grow one ...

Greenhouse repaired after storm damage, Pruning the back border. Lots of shredding and found a birds nest in the bush ...

Some years ago we moved to a new house which had a tiny suburban garden giving little room for growing vegetables, mainly a small herb bed and some salad crops. Then I realised there was an allotment ...

Onion sets are small, immature onions whose development has been stopped. The onions are carefully stored in climate controlled conditions until spring when they appear in the shops. For the beginner ...

The onion fly lays its eggs by the base of the onion which then hatch into maggots who eat away at the base of the onion and its roots killing the onion. Identifying the problem is straightforward.

You can grow any type of tomato in a greenhouse but the bush (also known as determinate) varieties take up a lot of valuable floor space whereas the cordon (also called pole or indeterminate) ...

Cauliflowers are not the easiest of brassicas to grow but I think they are probably the most satisfying. A beautifully formed cauliflower with tight curds is wonderful to see and producing it is a ...

As with the three year crop rotations and five year crop rotations, we divide our plot up after allowing for the permanent beds of comfrey, asparagus and rhubarb etc. In this case into four beds or ...

A delicious, frugal radish leaf soup easily prepared using as the primary ingredient, radish leaves which are most often discarded.

A look at allotment letting agreements, what these agreements cover and the legal aspects of leasing an allotment. By Sarah Gill, a legal blogger from Clickdocs (now defunct I believe), who were one ...

So what to do with that half packet of seeds you have left over? The four main points are to keep the seeds dry, cool, but not frozen which would damage them as the ice crystals would disrupt the ...

There is only one variety of long carrot suitable for show and that is ‘New Red Intermediate’. The one big problem with growing long roots is that you are never quite sure what is going on down below ...