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Some gardening guides can make growing your own vegetables as complicated as the Kama Sutra makes lovemaking. But growing food to eat is innate in us all.

Effective and cheap liquid organic fertilizers and foliar sprays can be made at home. Use easily found materials.

Spring is an excellent time to make up a batch of liquid manure from the new lush growth. Use liquid manure to as an organic fertilizer to add nutrients and trace element

Great changes take place within a compost pile so that it becomes greater than the sum of its parts - there are more usable nitrates than in the original material. "Good

Organic gardeners develop their gardens without the use of synthetic chemicals. Often green manures are used as an ecologically sustainable alternative.

Learn how to construct and run your own wormery to recycle your kitchen waste cheaply, cleanly and efficiently whilst getting some of the best fertiliser available!

Sweet peas are grown from seed from autumn to late winter. Some chip or soak the seed, others collect their own. Here are the best ways of raising your own plants.

Making a garden is fun, but even more satisfying is deciding on a whole site master plan using permaculture principles of organic garden design for an environmentally sus

The stinging nettle perhaps deservedly has a poor image but it can be put to a surprising number of uses.

Peppers, including health-giving chillies, are easy to grow in warm sunny places when planted in late spring.

Whether you only have space on the windowsill or a container crying out for several plants, there's a fuchsia to suit your lifestyle.

Communities damaged by the Asian tsunami in December 2004 have learned new skills, found new hope and are carving out a new future.

Each earthworm species is adapted to its natural environment and can cause problems when it is introduced elsewhere.

Popular as a versatile vegetable and quick and easy to grow, zucchinis are a good choice for beginning gardeners.

Waxy new potatoes are one of the delights of summer - and very easy to grow in the home garden.

Kiwifruit provide healthy vitamin C during winter and are easy to grow in the home garden.

The feast of Candlemas is celebrated on 2 February, forty days after Christmas. In medieval times, it was the day when all church candles were blessed for the year ahead.

So many people seem to think keeping chickens in backyards is hard work. Well, it's not. Here are 5 reasons why you should go out today and buy some feathered friends.

While plastic milk containers can be recycled, there are so many other uses you can put them to. Here are just a few to get you started.

Boscombe has had a pier ever since Lady Shelley fixed the first pile in 1888.

The Ballerina range of apple trees, pear trees and ornamental crab apples are ideal for container growing. Traditional fruiting varieties are available in the same form.

Even if gardening space is limited to patio pots or window-boxes, there is no reason not to put on a wonderful cottage garden summer display.

Edible Chinese Water Chestnuts (Eleocharis dulcis), sometimes known as Matai, can be an excellent backyard or medium-scale crop.

These ornamental flowering shrubs are mostly hardy and prefer slightly acid soil. They produce brilliant displays of bold white pink or scarlet blooms from late winter.

The climbing varieties of lonicera, or honeysuckle, bear sumptuous, often sweetly scented blooms from early summer to autumn. Some also have attractive evergreen foliage.

Hydrangeas are ornamental shrubs, with huge heads of white pink or red flowers, but acid soil gives purple or blue hydrangeas. Some accept full sun, most are shade plants

Traditional potato cultivation needs a big garden and lots of digging. Grow potatoes the easy way and enjoy a year round crop from or small garden or even a patio.

The Ridgeway and Peddars Way are prehistoric tracks that run diagonally across England, though some of its best landscapes. They're now hiking tracks, too.

Jasminums are vigorous hardy or frost hardy climbers, with plentiful scented blossom in shades of white yellow pink and red, with summer and winter flowering species.

Growbag cultivation of strawberries saves work and produces good crops of tasty fruit from the smallest garden or patio, or even a sunny balcony.

Strawberries are among the most delicious soft fruit and very easy to grow. A few strawberry plants in a sunny corner of the garden will give a tasty crop for 2-3 years.

The New Forest National Park in Southern England has ponies, cattle and pigs roaming apparently wild, but they are all owned according to ancient commoners rights.

Organic farming lessens the effects of climate change. Urs Niggli of the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) calls for increased support.

Agricultural methods are more about the ease of using machines and less to do with gaining maximum production. Smart choice of plants helps us to redress this balance.

In garden designs, evergreen and flowering shrubs, in their huge variety, offer an ideal backdrop for other garden plants. Many can give year round colour and interest.

Do you need a change of scenery or a well-earned break? Taking a Gap Year is the perfect way to re-energise yourself, explore unique locations and learn new skills.

Industrial agriculture, insecticides, mites or mobile phones; no one knows the true cause of bee colony collapse disorder. It would be a fruitless world without bees.

Not only is the Shetland pony a breed native to Britain, it also has the distinction of being the smallest breed of pony in the world.

Public opinion has turned against commercial whaling, and keeping them in captivity is being called into question.

Mulch is a layer of material spread on top of the soil to conserve soil moisture and discourage the growth of weeds.

As tensions remain high on the Korean peninsula, another year of poor harvests means many North Koreans will endure shortages this winter, raising the spectre of famine.

Two farms in the UK have been closed this month after links to the E. coli bacteria. This article looks at different strains of E. coli, prevention, and how to treat it.

Gazanias may grow as perennials in their native Africa, but in frost-prone areas they're raised from seed as annual bedding plants with an exotic touch.

Growing edible and nutritious Chinese water chestnuts is a simple process which produces masses of this delicious aquatic vegetable.

Hugely diverse flowering shrubs, clematis's exotic blooms range from tiny nodding bells to huge saucers. They grow from 2 to 40 ft high and thrive both in sun and shade.

Home grown tomatoes taste fantastic and are easy to grow in pots or a spare patch of garden bed. Follow these steps for sweet, juicy fruits you can truly call your own.

North Korea was a country in disarray during the 1990s, shorn of Soviet support the Pyongyang regime struggled to feed its population.

By preparing ahead of time, your Christmas celebrations can help save the world, rather than adding to environmental problems.

The Cornish coast was the setting for one of the most courageous events in RNLI history, when a volunteer lifeboat crew battled against ferocious seas.

There is nothing like having organic spuds on hand to cook for supper whenever the family feels like eating them.