Crops you can start early!

Aubergines: Grow in a heated greenhouse using a propagator. The temperature should be at 18-21°C Broad beans: This tasty and popular veg can be sown now if you choose a hardy variety such as ‘Super Aq

While light levels are low, you might be holding off sowing herb seeds until the warmer months are here. But if you’re feeling impatient, why not grow a few microgreens like basil, coriander and parsl

With every great growing season beginning before the first signs of spring, now is the perfect time to start thinking about when to sow your seeds for colourful, tasty harvests later in the year. Alth

January days may still be chilly and short on daylight, but we can feel spring on the horizon, and there are plenty of under cover tasks we can complete now to get us out of the starting gates and rea

Lucy Hutchings looks at what you can be doing in the vegetable garden now, to get ahead of the game in the spring

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