Gardeners' Heaven

If you’re serious about raising your own plants from scratch, there’s one piece of kit you’ll find incredibly useful – an electrically heated propagator. But there’s no need to invest in a great big elaborate one that costs a fortune. Nowadays most garden centres sell small economical versions about the size of a standard seed-tray [...]

by Alan Titchmarsh Midwinter isn’t the time you’d usually be thinking of doing some serious plant propagating, but its perfect for tip-layering – an old but effective way of propagating all sorts of cane fruit (blackberries, loganberries etc) and ornamental rubus species such as Rubus thibetanus and ‘Benenden’; also the unusual dual-purpose Japanese wineberry which [...]

by Alan Titchmarsh When you’ve cut your teeth – so to speak – on the usual radishes, lettuce, courgettes, carrots and perhaps a tub of tomatoes on the patio, most novice veg growers like to branch out into more exotic territory. And there’s plenty of scope. A lot of veggies that are rather pricy to [...]