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

Helping you get your best-ever fruit and veg

Toby explains how to take action now to stop weeds in their tracks

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

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

In an extract from her new book, The Productive Garden , Stephanie Hafferty explains how to save money and use traditional wisdom for homemade nasties-free loveliness