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    Chris Collins on...pesticide free growing

    Chris Collins shares the jobs he’ll be getting on with this April – and provides five tips for reducing your pesticide use

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    The beginner gardener’s glossary of tricky terms

    Our head gardener Emma O’Neill demystifies some organic gardening language so you can get the season off to a skilled start

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    The art of pollination and isolation

    What do tuning forks and paintbrushes have in common? They’re both tools used in the production and conservation of heritage seed varieties. We take a glimpse behind the scenes.

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    Regen your garden

    Is regenerative gardening just a new name for organic gardening? How can regenerative principles be applied on a smaller scale? Our associate director of science, Dr Bruce Pearce, delves into the details

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    Pesticide alternatives

    Dr Anton Rosenfeld and Emma O’Neill take a deep dive into pesticides, looking at their uses and impact – and what alternatives you can use to boot them out of your garden

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    Rising temperatures equals lower food security

    Let’s take food growing more seriously and grow more foods in the UK so we’re more resilient to change, writes our president Professor Tim Lang

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    Listening to the life in your soil

    Dr Anton Rosenfeld rounds up recent strides in the science of soil measurements

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    Increase your pulse rate

    Dr Anton Rosenfeld looks at the origins of pulses and the prospect of growing some of them in the UK

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    Last chance to get involved in our citizen science projects!

    Join our Resilient Greens and Build a Better Veg Planner experiments this spring.

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    Is it time to rethink the traditional British veg patch?

    Our annual survey shows 2025 was the 'year of the aphid'! Are climate extremes reshaping what gardeners can grow...and should we swap cabbage for leafy amaranth?