Advice & Inspiration For Your Garden

how to plant, grow & care for snowdrops

Snowdrops have become increasingly fashionable over the years, with rare cultivars fetching very high prices. Now you can find a wide range of singles and doubles with green dots and dashes that, shou

how to plant, grow & care for fritillaries

Imperial fritillaries are the first whopper garden bulb to flower in spring. You've got alliums, lilies and eremurus later, but it's the good old crown imperial which gives you drama early in the year

how to plant, grow & care for peas

There is nothing so tasty as fresh peas picked from the garden and eaten raw straight from the pod. If you are lucky, some might even make it as far as the kitchen. There are also mange tout and sugar

how to plant, grow & care for runner beans

Traditionally grown in long rows on the allotment, runner beans work just as well on a teepee or up strings against a wall. We even sell a dwarf variety that you can grow in containers. As with all pe

how to plant, grow & care for beetroot

Don’t let crinkle cut pickled beetroot put you off – it doesn’t have to be that way. I love beetroot raw or roasted, red, orange or pink, and that's what makes it look such fun on the plate. There is

how to grow a wildflower meadow

There are various things worth knowing about growing your own wildflower meadow. Watch as Sarah talks through some of her tips for a successful wildflower meadow.If I had to list the things that give

how to plant, grow & care for aquilegias

Aquilegias are invaluable for flowering in May and early June when there is surprisingly little colour in the garden. Aquilegias come in a wide range of colours and some varieties have dark stems that

sarah's favourite tomato varieties

Join Sarah in the greenhouse at Perch Hill, as she discusses her top tomato varieties for taste, texture and health benefits.I’m sitting in our lovely greenhouse at Perch Hill and its just jam packed

Teresa’s fresh cottage pie

There are a million recipes for cottage pie, but of all I’ve tried, this is the best – a recipe from Teresa Wallace, who has given me huge help, reading and commenting on every recipe in this book.

smoked haddock and beetroot gratin

serves 6 600g beetroot (we used mixed colours) 2 tbsp oil Salt and pepper 200g finely chopped leek 425ml full fat milk (or almond milk) 500g undyed smoked haddock 50g butter (or set

seville orange marmalade recipe

The best marmalade is quite chunkily cut and not too sweet, like the old-fashioned Oxford type. This recipe makes a delicious, deep-amber coloured marmalade.for about 3.5kg of marmalade 1.4k

sweet peas | why sarah loves them and how to cut them

If you’re going to grow one plant for picking, or one family, it probably has to be the sweet pea, they are just the most luscious, lovely, scented, pretty, easy, just sort of quintessentially British

chitting potatoes

In this video Sarah shows us how to chit potatoes and talks about one of her favourite varieties, ‘Belle de Fontenay’.By viewing the video, you agree to a data transmission to Youtube.The data process

sauté of red brussels sprouts with almonds recipe

Sautéed with a dash of vinegar, these amazing crimson Brussels sprouts keep their colour.for 6 750g/2lbs small red Brussels sprouts 50g/2oz whole almonds, cut in half lengthwise and toasted 30

coffee, meringue and ice cream cake

I was first given this incredible pudding by a friend, Tam Lawson, 20 years ago and I’ve made it for pretty much every Christmas since. I’ve never across anyone (apart from those who are non-dairy)

prune and armagnac tart

A brilliant winter tart for serving with a spoon of crème fraîche or vanilla ice-cream. You can make it in a few weeks to eat over Christmas, or if you have more time now, this is a good tart