Gardeners' Heaven

by Alan Titchmarsh With rising birdseed prices, you may wonder about the best way of feeding feathery garden visitors without breaking the bank. For a start, a lot of kitchen scraps could go out for the birds. They’ll enjoy stale bread, biscuits, cake and pastry, but what’s really worthwhile in winter is fat, so save [...]

The Autumn colours herald the arrival in supermarkets and farm shops of one of my favourite vegetables – the pumpkin. They are fairly easy to grow in the garden, with varieties such as Jack of All Trades and Hundredweight being popular for those growing for a halloween lantern.  They must be a fairly recent introduction [...]

by Alan Titchmarsh Autumn sees a good many householders sighing with exasperation at the prospect of six weeks of blocked gutters, slithery paving and garden paths awash with fallen leaves. No sooner have you cleared one instalment when the wind blows another load down, so you have to do it all over again. Harrumph! But [...]

Wherever you live it’s fair to say there is an element of danger to life.  If you live in the arctic circle, Polar Bears are a serious concern, whereas down in Australia the black widow spider claims at least 3 lives per year. You could be forgiven then for thinking that a move out of [...]