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New TV show will give viewers a glimpse of celebrity gardeners in their own backyard

Here I am in the Sunday Mirror, every week, telling you how to get the best out of your gardens.

It’s a great pleasure and a privilege but, from tomorrow night, I’m also going to be putting my money where my mouth is by revealing my own garden.

The brilliant Love Your Garden Team are returning with an ITV lockdown special – gardening with a difference.

Rather than transforming other people’s plots, Alan Titchmarsh, Katie Rushworth, Frances Tophill and me will throw open the gates to our own gardens, inviting viewers inside to see just how we do it for Grow Your Own at Home...at home.

It’s been a great experience and all my family has been involved.

My two daughters, Alice, five, and Abigail, four, have been planting and watering; my one-year-old son Lance has been giving support to his dad by eating our strawberries, and Adele – their mum – has been the camera operator filming us all hard at work.

My children love the garden. We have a smelly leaf border full of scratch and sniff favourites like lemon-scented verbena, spearmint peppermint and chocolate mint plus many more.

We have more than 30 birdboxes, plus hedgehog homes and even honey bees. My kids especially love peas fresh from the pod – that’s when they taste sweetest – and growing carrots; Alice eats them raw, Abigail when cooked.

Our home-grown rhubarb is a favourite picked fresh and dunked in sugar. But gardens aren’t just for summer – the children also grow Halloween pumpkins and in autumn we pick apples and pears. It really is a magical thing sharing a hobby with your children. Anyway, for a decade

Growing your own fruit and veg gives you more than food

now, Alan, Katie, Frances and I have been travelling the country building gardens for deserving people.

In fact, Alan and I have now created more gardens together than he did with Charlie Dimmock and Tommy Walsh on Groundforce. To say we’ve seen Britain’s highways and byways

TEAMWORK With children GONE TO POT David at home FUN David’s greenhouse