Degradation of soils over the past 40 years has been due to the depletion of organic matter content, resulting in decreased crop yields. To produce two tonnes of maize per acre, an uptake of nitrogen ...

This included the impact of desertification and drought, rewilding gardens, ending plastic pollution and practising sustainable gardening.

Plants likely to cope better in hot weather include lavender, rosemary, sedum and other succulents, Mr Turrell said. Here are ...

I received an email from one of my readers about her Rhubarb or Rheumrhabarbarum. It seems that the stalks on her rhubarb were as thin and weak as they haveever been. Her rhubarb normally does well ...