Category: Out Of Doors

Garden jobs for April

Now is the time to start planning your hanging baskets, says Sherborne gardener Pete Harcom - but keep watching out for frosts. April.. at last!...

A gust of fresh air!

Activity gathers pace as the roses come out, playing their own part in the constant cycle of growing and moving, says Thorngrove’s Kelsi-Dean Buck. Well...

Go on, give it a grow!

Prices of imported flower have leapt 40%, so here’s tips on how to grow your own – and it’s so satisfying and simple, says...

Garden jobs for March | 2022

Don’t rush to buy tender plants from garden centres until the spring frost is over, warns Sherborne gardener Pete Harcom. The clocks will go forward...

It’s the season for choosing – and making a start on the sowing | The voice of the allotment

Barry Cuff shares what’s happening on an allotment you might expect to be bare in January, along with an annual potato trip. Allotments suffered badly...

Wild (and free) food is springing up!

Few know that the much-derided chickweed is an amazingly tasty salad green packed full of vitamins, says expert forager Carl Mintern, who shares what...

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It’s a new home for Cattistock point-to-point this season

As the 100 year old Point-to-Point racing (amateur steeplechasing) season begins, Sara Greenwood introduces the new home of the Cattistock course. Point-to-Point horse racing, steeplechasing...

From the first homebred winner to the yard’s Cheltenham contenders

Youth and experience both won this week, sharpening expectations ahead of a Festival packed with opportunity, says Chris Wald It was a week of extremes...