Pull out carrots

IT’S easy to imagine the vegetable patch is winding down at this time of year – the tomatoes are ripening, courgettes are piling up, and the first leaves are beginning to yellow. But here’s something

Broad beans: Start these seeds now and in a few months time you will be able to enjoy an early harvest. Cauliflowers: Sow early summer types now and place under a cold frame to offer them some protect

Mint and parsley crops can be potted up this month so they can provide you with plenty of winter pickings. As we come to the end of the year, you’ll be glad of a hit of homegrown flavour during the la

Although the garden may hold less appeal for some when rain is lashing the windows and temperatures are down in single figures than in those hopeful, sun-warmed days of spring, there is a lot to be sa

The next few weeks are a crucial time, says Lucy Hutchings , to make the most of this season and prepare for the coming year

Chris Collins from Garden Organic explains how to extend the harvest with great hardy greens to sow now