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So farewell then….

…courgette plants. It was a lovely relationship, and you were generous to a fault, but I think our season in the sun is over. The first frost struck last night: a very light one, to be sure, and I got...

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Rogues' gallery: Slugs

I was rootling about in the garden the other day and turned over a plank of wood – and look what I found. Sorry if you’re eating while reading this: but you knew it wasn’t going to be long before the...

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Hampton Court Flower Show 2010: Veggie heaven

Giant cabbages in immaculate rows in the massive GYO centrepiece garden Home Grown Never mind all that Chelsea razzmatazz and flummery. If you grow veg, the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show is where it’s...

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Pick of the month: September

 Squash ‘Yellow Scallop’ More of a sculpture than a vegetable: the prettiest thing I've ever grown Ever grown a vegetable so breathtakingly beautiful you make a detour by its patch of your vegetable...

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End-of-season review

I know my squashes did well, but... Nope, can't take credit for this lot: it's Heligan's astonishing harvest The light is dimming, the air is chilling, and though it is still unseasonably mild here...

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Hot pots

I'm running out of room.... Just one corner of my packed greenhouse The annual round of horticultural hot-desking has begun: that frenetic three-month spell in which I seem to spend my whole time...

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Garden-less gardening

People are nothing if not inventive. It may have once been the case that every self-respecting householder had a couple of acres on the estate to set aside for a walled kitchen garden (one of my...

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Takeaway Malvern

'My Very Local Veg Garden' by Hannah Genders won gold - but was all sourced within a bicycle ride If I’m feeling a little jaded and short of inspiration at this time of year, a little bit as if I’ve...

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Good things in small packages

Tiny pumpkins for tiny hands: 'Jack Be Little' While we’re on the subject of pumpkins: just look at these little doozies. Those are my ten-year-old’s hands: and they fit quite comfortably into her...

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Hasta la ristra

1: Pick your peppers. These are 'Razzmatazz': they're a little fleshy, though. Thinner varieties like 'Cayenne' dry best You can dry all sorts of surplus veg from the garden. In fact I’d go so far as...

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