How to carry on growing food over winter ...

Stefan Buczacki

While light levels are low, you might be holding off sowing herb seeds until the warmer months are here. But if you’re feeling impatient, why not grow a few microgreens like basil, coriander and parsl

Will raking the soil help frosts kill pests? Moving wet winter soil does it no good, damaging its structure and making it more compact and slower draining. So although you might uncover a few slugs an

It is of course vital that crops are watered sufficiently, especially during the summer months, but it is surprisingly easy to give too much TLC to plants and end up overwatering them. Symptoms of thi

Lucy Hutchings looks at what you can be doing in the vegetable garden now, to get ahead of the game in the spring