Turn kitchen waste into “black gold” but only if you follow the rules on what to compost and what to avoid

Salad days

A guide to some of the more unusual vegetable and salad crops that can be grown from seed this summer

Jack and Jill Children’s Foundation garden by Kildare Growers in association with Peter O’Brien Landscapes

Gardens at this year's show display inventiveness in lean times

A decorated garden gnome designed by Elton John is seen  at the Chelsea Flower Show. Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/Reuters

The Chelsea Flower Show lifted its ban on garden gnomes for the first time in its 100 year history, but for designer models only(...)

A woman with flowers in her blue dyed hair looks at chrysanthemums at the Chelsea Flower Show in London. Photograph: Luke MacGregor/Reuters

Display was inspired by show’s centenary celebrations

The Trailfinders Australian Garden has won the gold medal and Best in Show at the Chelsea Flower Show 2013 at Royal Hospital Chelsea  in London today. Photograph:  Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images

Harsh cold spring takes toll on exhibitors

Head gardener Patrick Ardiff planting up one of Lodge Park’s pots. Photograph: Richard Johnston

When choosing summer bedding to plant in pots, seek scents, interesting foliage, grasses and colour palettes

 Seamus O’Brien, head gardener of Kilmacurragh surrounded by the flowers of the tree rhododendron, R.arboreum ssp. cinnamomeum, which is in full bloom in the gardens at the moment. Photograph: Richard Johnson

A great horticultural legacy of some of the world’s rarest species is flowering at the OPW-managed garden in Kilmacurragh, Co Wick(...)

 A homemade mini-hoophouse. Photograph: Richard Johnston

It’s been a tough start for food plants, so here are some tips from the experts on how to improve seedlings’ chances of survival (...)

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