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Growing pumpkins: our guide to planting pumpkins

How to grow pumpkins and squashes

Kindling chopping: how best to cut logs

Garden Equipment

The best way to chop kindling

A hedgehog

How to build a hedgehog house

A late summer container

Easy charm and subtle colour until early autumn

Learning Latin plant names like Cercidiphyllum Japonicum can be hard work

Latin plant names: learn about the plant naming conventions

Lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis)

Convallaria majalis or Lily of the valley and how it is grown

An illustration of September's harvest by Alice Pattullo

September gardening jobs

Crab Apple Jelly Jar.

How to make crab apple jelly

N. bowdenii ‘Vesta K’

Nerines and amarines and how to grow them

Close up of gardener holding four cooking apples close to his chest

Growing apples: tips for how to grow apples

Scary apples for halloween and apple day

Make scary apples for Halloween

Apple tree 'Discovery' and when to prune apple trees

How to prune fruit trees

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Reducing plastic in your garden and allotment

Jacqueline vd Kloet de Theetuin

How to plant bulbs in perennial borders

Iris reticulata 'Katharine Hodgkin', Crocus chrysanthus 'Romance', Muscari armeniacum and Anemone blanda 'Charmer'

Forcing bulbs: advice and planting combinations