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It’s February, you’re standing in six inches of waterlogged allotment mud, and the cheap wellies you bought from the supermarket last autumn have just split along the seam. Again. Your…

You are standing in B&Q staring at eight wheelbarrows ranging from £25 to £180 and you cannot tell what makes the expensive one worth seven times the cheap one. They…

You planted out your courgette seedlings on a warm April afternoon, felt proud of your early start, and woke to find them black and wilted after an overnight frost. April…

You’ve spent weeks nurturing your strawberry plants from bare roots, watched the first white flowers appear, and then one morning you come out to find every single berry has been eaten overnight. Pigeons on the brassicas. Cabbage white butterflies finding your broccoli before you do. Blackbirds…

Every spring, the same thing happens. You buy a packet of tomato seeds, scatter them into whatever container you can find in the kitchen, balance the whole setup on a…

You’ve just signed the tenancy agreement for your allotment plot, or maybe you’ve sectioned off a corner of the garden for growing veg this year. Either way, you’re standing in…