Get an early start on onions

Onions and garlic are allotment essentials in the autumn months. They also serve you well throughout the rest of the season, with the delicious, flavour-packed bulbs, perfect for drying and saving for

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

Mimic their natural behaviour and get them going now to flower in spring

Get ahead of the game for next year by sowing seeds now, says Joe Swift — and save yourself a fortune

MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR OUTDOOR SPACE THIS MONTH WITH OUR GUIDE TO THE CHANGING SEASONS