A host of free courses get underway this winter for those wanting to start or strengthen community agriculture schemes.

Soil Association projects manager Bonnie Hewson said: “Whatever type of scheme you are involved with or considering, there are courses for you, from marketing to scaling up production. (more…)

To the gardening world it may have always been considered a fact, but science has never proved the widely held belief that watering your garden in the midday sun can lead to burnt plants. Now a study into sunlit water droplets, published in New Phytologist, provides an answer that not only reverberates across gardens and allotments, but may have implications for forest fires and human sunburn. (more…)

There is still huge disparity between the quality of different composts according to new research from Which? Gardening. (more…)