Pruning your fruit trees is an important job to maximise your fruit crops and keep your plants healthy. It can be confusing! So to help you out  Master Gardeners have shared their top tips to successful pruning. Winter pruning should be carried out whilst the trees are dormant, from late November to early March. So [...]

Encouraging people to grow more of their own food is not only beneficial to the environment but leads to improved health and wellbeing and creates stronger local communities, according to new Coventry University research released today. In a study of the Master Gardeners programme run by the UK’s leading organic growing charity, Garden Organic, researchers [...]

We asked Master Gardener Allen Farren how he went about organising a stand at a local event and why it was so much fun. Allen has been to many local events, and organised one of our very first Master Gardener stands back in May 2010…………  “Your first one is a learning curve. You need to [...]

Following on from a visit to Ryton by some of the allotmenteers from the Brunswick Healthy living centre – it was my turn to visit them! Read part one first! On yet another sunny morning last week, I made way to the Whitnash allotments to see the allotment group at their regular weekly session. Master [...]

We asked Master Gardener Helen Kelly about the households who she helps to grow their own……. How did you find your households? Most of my households are people I already know: family, friends, neighbours etc. but some are ‘new’ friends…..people I met at events at Ryton or out and about and signed them up. How [...]