Choose tasty new varieties and prep your patch for delicious fruit come summer

Long for fruit trees? Grow rich pickings without a vast outdoor space...

As days grow longer, the urge to sow seeds is almost impossible to resist. But if you dream of overflowing beds, the most important thing to do now is plan the growing year to help you meet its sowing

Deter birds from pecking out your garlic by scattering twiggy prunings over the soil where the cloves are planted. Carefully place the prunings inbetween cloves, put back any that have been disturbed

KITCHEN GARDENER

These days we try to leave the ‘mess’ of our ornamental garden for as much of the winter as possible for the sake of the biodiversity in our vital garden spaces and, therefore, the world at large. Now