Save your own seeds

There’s magic in every seed – so start planting them today for a garden bursting with colour and buzzing with life

It’s time for sowing, planting alpine containers and living screens and tidying up old growth

As winter eases and spring beckons, longer days bring the garden to life – and your growing year starts here…

For many gardeners, nothing is more exciting than the first glimpse of brand new seedlings poking through the surface of the soil. If you stick to a few basic principles you can easily achieve fantast

Work your way through your borders, removing dandelion flowerheads before they get the chance to set seed. Flowers of dandelions are a useful source of early nectar for pollinators but if they are abl

There are some vegetables that thrive in the cold, but unless you aspire to self-sufficiency Tom Coward recommends caution when sowing very early in the year. “It’s a mistake, although we always do it