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

The Kitchen Garden is simply brimming with projects now

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

Fresh experiments signal a season of change in the garden

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

Prepare a free-draining, sunny and weed-free bed to grow broad beans. Rake in blood, fish and bonemeal fertiliser to give the plants a boost. Plant the seedlings in a row, 15-20cm apart. Dig a hole an