Helen Chesnut

Helen gives instructions for late transplanting, plus tips for broad bean growing

Leaves rolling up and becoming brittle on stunted plants is a disorder called, aptly enough, tomato leaf roll. Find out causes and fixes.

Plant’s alluring pastel blossoms are very perfumed and bloom abundantly, four or five to a stem.

Best to wait for green bell peppers to ripen to savour their full, rich flavour, sweetness, and heightened vitamin C content. Find out more.

To get radish root production well under way before heat arrives, seed as early as possible

Last year’s fruit thinning, together with pruning vine growth hovering above the fruit, resulted in large, sweet fruit

It’s the only lettuce seeding that I make directly into the outdoor garden, and early August, up to around Aug. 10, is the usual best timing.

After the berry harvest and into summer, it is normal for some of the older leaves to begin deteriorating.

Some wait until the fruit become fully drooped and feel soft.

How to get aphids off of kale plants and keep onion flies at bay.