A ranger in Lincolnshire is championing the cause of picking wild food ingredients in British woodland.

Sunday marked the beginning of the harvest at Britain's largest organic lavender farm -Mayfield Organic Lavender.

Infestations of any plant-eating insects and bugs in gardens are naturally not preferable.

Alison Patel writes: Preparing soil in the spring time is an essential job for gardeners who want to make the most of their plants in the summer.

Alison Patel writes: Slugs and snails are a pest that most gardeners are familiar with, but using pesticides and chemicals to kill them may be harmful to the environment and could result in good insects dying.

Daniel Shane writes: The transformation of a forgotten, overgrown allotment into a lush organic garden is the latest challenge for a Welsh environmental group.

Daniel Shane writes: A new do-it-yourself guide has provided tea enthusiasts bored with drinking the same old cuppa with some much-needed inspiration.

Alison Patel writes: Enriching soil to ensure that new beds flourish is important but it can be an expensive business, the Times reports.

Alison Patel writes: Celebrity gardener and president of the Soil Association, Monty Don, has asked for the group to consider changing the word "organic" to "sustainable" to prevent isolating people from the cause.

Alison Patel writes: Following the news of failing allotment crops across the UK, Lucy Siegle of the Guardian advises gardeners not to point the finger of blame at manure.

Felicity Kendal and Richard Briars made a Surbiton house their home in the 1970's sitcom The Good Life and now the Jordan family, who have moved into the actual house filmed on set, are aspiring to echo Tom and Barbara's green-living ways.

Garden Organic (Go), one of the country's leading organisations for organic growing, has identified major threats to British gardens and hopes that by raising awareness on the issue and lobbying parliament, more will be done to prevent the demise of the domestic garden.

Residents in the High Wycombe area have been left angry and dismayed at the local council's decision to build 465 homes on allotments used by nearby gardeners.

The 80 public-spirited members of an allotment association in Nuneaton, North Warwickshire, have been toiling for the greater good – clearing land at their allotment site to enable new gardening enthusiasts to join the club.