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Plum Prunus domestica line drawing with detail of half fruit and plum blossom

Garden snail Helix aspera with grey body and yellow and brown shell cut to white

Garden snail Helix aspera line drawing in pen and ink cut to white

Common British Garden invertebrates including violet ground beetle, silver y moth, earth worm, worm, flesh fly, honey bee, ladybird, and small tortoiseshell butterfly with written annotations on each

Cucumber plant drowing up a support showing tendrils, leaves, and young cucumber fruits and flowers alogn with companion planting of nasturtium

How to build a raised bed from planks showing attachments of horizontal planks to the vertical uprights, and how to secure the bed in the ground

Safely pricking out seedlings from a seed tray

Diagram showing how to do double digging of a flower bed or vegetable plot

Wild Plum Prunus domestica fruit and blossom

Agaricus campestris Big illustration of the underside of a field mushroom with stipe removed, with a younger mushroom with pinker gills ontop

Damson fruit Prunus domestica individual lone fruit

Iris in gravel with blue petals

Garden border in spring with tulips, crocus, daffodils and daisies abutting a carefully tended lawn and edged with concrete slabs

Corner of a raised bed showing how to attach the plants to one another when building the bed

Three illustrations showing compost as it degrades into organic matter, from recognizable leaf litter through to earth like mulch

Set up with two compost bins in rotation

Vegetable garden in a raised bed showing taller crop plants behind the shorter ones in the front including beans, borage, chives, and salad crops

Cucumber plant drowing up a support showing tendrils, leaves, and young cucumber fruits and flowers alogn with companion planting of nasturtium

Rotation patterns for growing vegetables

Rotation patterns for growing vegetables

Examples of how to lay out your vegetable garden and how adaptable one space can be

Container growing herbs including marjoram, chives, basil, chervril, salad, lettuce, and nasturtium

Raised bed growing chives, nasturtium, lavender, chili, cabbage, lettuce, rosemary, parsley, and violets

Lasagna garden cross section showing the layering of paper, organic matter such as compost, topsoil, and crops