Patrick Grant’s diary of a garden rescue

In the first of a new series, the designer and ‘Great British Sewing Bee’ judge enlists a pair of Oxford Sandy and Black pigs to clear his tangle of bramble

In the second of a new series, the ‘Great British Sewing Bee’ judge tackles his overgrown grass, ditching his destructive strimmer for a traditional scythe

In the third in a series, the ‘Great British Sewing Bee’ judge plants damsons, figs, apples and walnuts — a gift to future generations

Continuing his series, the ‘Great British Sewing Bee’ judge makes like a medieval warrener as a mega warren threatens to sink both house and garden

In the fifth in a series, the ‘Great British Sewing Bee’ judge consults master rosarians before choosing cultivars to revive his plot in storied Yorkshire pastureland