The next few months are always a little odd for gardeners. I do little more in December and January than crawl outside to gather chard, parsnips and carrots, then crawl back in again to curl up under a throw with a seed catalogue or back issues of...

There’s nothing quite so off-putting as badly cooked cabbage - limp, watery and horribly bitter. But the same is true for courgettes - and we have all suffered at the hands of school catering which murders the flavours of both. Fortunately, F&F has the...

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Come winter and most gardeners crawl indoors for a hard-earned rest. Not so the team at Anglesey Abbey, who this week will head down to their winter garden with jet-washers and scrubbing brushes. Washing the trees keeps the extraordinary display of...

I admit to finding it very difficult to don my waterproof coat and head off to the allotment when it is blowing a gale or very cold. I worry that I am indeed a bit of a wimpy gardener, a fair weather one. So it should come as no surprise that this...