Queens of Spades ; Whether You've Got Ambitions to Outshine the Chelsea Flower Show or Simply Fancy Growing Your Own Salad, Making Your Garden Work Harder Is Easier Than You Think. We Ask Two Gardening Gurus to Share Their Home-Sown Secrets

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GROW YOUR OWN CUTTING GARDEN

SARAH RAVEN, writer, cook, broadcaster and teacher, is an expert in all things to grow, cut and eat from your garden. Her two acres at Perch Hill Farm, East Sussex, from where she runs her gardening and cookery courses, includes a 150ft by 100ft cutting garden.

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Queens of Spades ; Whether You've Got Ambitions to Outshine the Chelsea Flower Show or Simply Fancy Growing Your Own Salad, Making Your Garden Work Harder Is Easier Than You Think. We Ask Two Gardening Gurus to Share Their Home-Sown Secrets

British gardeners have great guilt about cutting flowers - it's like we're stealing the view. Rather than deadheading, try live heading and pick buckets of flowers for inside.

There's snobbery about annuals but from just a few packets of seed you will have a house and garden full of flowers in about ten weeks.

Getting goo...

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