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Christmas Eve musings, solstice hope and the priceless gift that is gardening

Counting down to Christmas, the stupidity of forgetful gardeners and pectin palavers

Five of the best... ways to stop your garden flooding

What to do with a medlar

Staring into the bottomless void, reasons to stay cheerful, and late season fruit

The Greenery Podcast Episode 1: Catrina Fenton

Seeds with a story

Seed saving, glitzy awards and rotting medlars

Workouts, weeds and wee: the secret to good compost

Pasta alla Norma

Home-saved seeds, ripe almonds and an oca waterfall

Comfrey: the wonder plant

Totally Tomatoes October update: The Verdict

Bindweed, winter salads and a bad case of FOMO

The easy way to save tomato seed

Bramble bashing, giant tomatoes and rampant slugs

Problem focus: Powdery mildew

The scythe: a very 21st century gardening tool

Happy new year, blighty tomato leaves and self-seeding parsley

Gardening your rewilded patch

Problem focus: Tomato troubles

Reasons to be cheerful, lots of cooking, and apples galore

Totally Tomatoes August update: All about dat taste

The wilder way

A second spring, (even) more courgettes and the beauty of a well-swung scythe

Courgette soup

How to train your tomato

Sulky peas, short-assed beans and home-saved seeds

How to plait garlic

The curse of perfectionism

Celebrating wonky veg, harvesting onions and feasting on fruit

Totally Tomatoes July update: Keeping up

Five of the best... sustainable gardening ideas from Hampton Court

Back in the garden, collapsing onions and fat round courgettes

Glastonbury Festival, holiday-proofing the garden and fingerling carrots

Why recycling plastic isn't - and never can be - the answer

Problem focus: Blackfly

Crops of the future, homeless pumpkins and the first harvests of summer

Five of the best... watering tricks for tomatoes

Elderflower cordial

Rose petals, broad beans and watering wisely

Let's talk about water

Totally Tomatoes June update: Planting

Rainforests in Newcastle, vanishing brassicas and winter squash

Problem focus: Bindweed

Back from Chelsea, ripe strawberries and perennialised chard

Can Chelsea ever be truly sustainable?

Chelsea Flower Show, new potatoes and strawberries on the way

Five of the best... lawn wildflowers

Peas, apple blossom and self-sown chard

How to make hessian grow bags

On the wild side

Dandelions, Brussels sprouts and new potatoes

Totally Tomatoes May update: Getting bigger...

No Mow Anytime

Beans, sunflowers and not enough hours in the day

Out you go! Hardening off without a coldframe

Cornflowers, Queensland Blue squash and rocketing rocket

How to make soil blocks

Planting spuds four ways

Un-nibbled peas, flowering strawberries and broad beans

Rhubarb chutney

Five of the best... home-made potting mixes

Tulips, radishes and rhubarb

How to go peat-free... successfully

Totally Tomatoes April update: Potting on

Almond blossoms, new potatoes and hungry mice

Food shortages? What food shortages?

An extra hour, garlic and peas

PSB pasta

A walk through living prehistory

Trees, mountains and rivers

The Greener Gardening Shopping Directory

Product review: Riddle me this

Snow, houseplants and Romanescu cauliflowers

Greener garden shopping

Totally Tomatoes March update: Seed sowing results

Mini caulis, red cabbage and five-year-old broccoli

Five of the best... biodegradable plant labels

Grow your own beanpoles

Shallots, (no) aubergines, and a clean greenhouse

So, what's new?

Five of the best... blight resistant potatoes

Tomatoes, a new book, and community woods

Plastic: your plants are better without

Sustainable seed composts

Bees, tomatoes and marigolds

Beans'n'greens

Going to seed

Daffodils, chillies and turbo-charged onions

Masterclass: How to sow tomato seed

A heated debate

Totally tomatoes: The Variety Directory

Totally tomatoes: Which tom?

All change! Plus onion seedlings... and rhubarb

Feeding the birds... without the cost

Rotating crops: don't bother

Witch hazels, daffodils and bittercress

How to force strawberries

Recipes

Land cress and potato soup

Of rain and onions

A living heritage

Sourcing sustainable seed

Garlic, beans and onions

Having a sort-out

January dreaming

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