It's more than possible to fit a kitchen garden into an already busy lifestyle and make gardening an ordinary part of your daily or weekly routine.

Finding a fair, resilient and sustainable way to grow local, healthy food is of great importance in these times of increasing social and environmental disruption. By examining the botany of plants, we can understand behaviours and adaptations, giving growers the tools to delve further into our favourite foods.Subscribers gain exclusive access to over 10 years worth of digital back issues, and our Mudketeers Club, an online community of growers with further articles and competitions each month. Any real garden does not and should not exist only to benefit us humans, it should equally benefit the local wildlife. There’s more to gardening than just potting plants and trimming your hedges - it’s the perfect place to grow vegetables too. Run as a horticultural therapy charity with the aim of improving individuals’ physical and mental health, this lovely garden has a range of productive areas, including organic vegetables and fruit collections with a focus on local varieties. Taking us beyond the cultivation of the carrot and cabbage, Hélèna offers a wealth of knowledge on growing a broad range of produce, many of which would have once been considered unusual.

The Walled Garden at Hughenden, Buckinghamshire Hughenden's sheltered Walled Garden is ideal for growing apricots, fig, pears and an old traditional English damson plum – the Aylesbury prune. Let’s dispel some of these initial faults, and explain how we can maximise our yields, and our happiness. Find out how to grow your own garlic or how on make a rotary composter with regular features by leading horticulturalists and gardening gurus such as Bob Flowerdew and Julie Moore. Rather than grow a lot of one thing, I like to grow many different types of leaves and veggies in my raised bed kitchen garden so that there's always something to harvest, to take inside and enjoy right away.The Kitchen Garden at Sizergh, Lake District Discover the Kitchen Garden at Sizergh, where self-sufficiency has always been important. My first book, Kitchen Garden Revival, walks you step by step how to plan, design, install, and fill your very own kitchen garden. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. There are tips on how to grow a wide range of fruit and vegetable crops and how to control troublesome pests plus what to do on your plot each month.

Despite the snow flurries and cold, frosty mornings, the ground is sufficiently warm, and the seeds adequately prepared to germinate and sprout.

It's time for us to close the doors to our green houses for a little while, as we wind down to the end of the current season. John Turner our Kitchen Gardener has a vision of providing our visitors with high quality local, seasonal produce. When I first started my kitchen garden design business, some of my clients would ask me, "Can you put the garden behind the garage or something? It has lifted the veil from the eyes of the population as to where our food comes from, and how reliant we are on the seemingly unfaltering chain of international trade.