Get green-fingered this Compost Awareness Week
COMPOST Awareness Week takes place from 6-12 May, and Essex residents are being offered lots of advice to help make their gardens grow.
Get cooking with wild garlic
Published: Mon 29 Apr 2013
You smell wild garlic long before you see it. Driving down a country lane, the odour wafts through open car windows. If stumbled upon while walking, you are assailed by an intoxicating scent – heaven
How to grow your own fennel
Published: Tue 09 Apr 2013
Florence fennel is grown for its fleshy stem and it's also an extremely pretty plant with its feathery foliage, so looks good in an ornamental border.
Grow your own chard
Published: Wed 20 Mar 2013
WITH its impressive, colourful stems in shades of red, pink, yellow, white and orange, this iron-rich vegetable is a must for salads or the stems can be cooked with the leaves when small.
How to grow your own onions
Published: Fri 08 Mar 2013
GARDENING guru Alan Titchmarsh has said that onions are one of his favourite veg to grow, as they are so easy and so rewarding
Today's Features
School Report
St Joseph's Primary pupils shoot hoops with Team GB's Jamell
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Coming up roses
Music
T-Rextasy bring glam rock to Bishop's Stortford
