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Enjoy your garden through the cold months while laying the groundwork for spring
Use potato beds to plant for spring colour and summer flavour
In gardening, September is the month of reckonings and new beginnings
On rainy days a polytunnel offers warmth, seclusion and a leafy refuge
Kitchen gardening is strangely addictive, sometimes frustrating and hugely rewarding
Many different kinds of vegetables can be sown directly into the ground now
It’s a spring like no other but there are still seeds to be sown and plants to be tended
By late spring you’ll have hordes of baby plants ready to be planted outdoors, all for the price of a few packets of seeds
From peas to radishes, spuds to spinach, these will give you a harvest in no time
Spring has sprung and it’s time to get going in the garden
We can easily recreate the sense of an Australian rainforest, leafy Asian woodland or a sun-baked Mediterranean garden, at home
It may be cold and muddy but there’s pruning, planting and planning to be done
Frilly flowers, tasty potatoes and onions worth waiting for can all be grown from seed
Stop using pesticides, allow weeds to grow and go for pro-pollinator planting
Set your bird table and feeders at least two metres from ground cover so they can’t be ambushed easily by cats
Now is the perfect month to plant spring-flowering bulbs including narcissus, crocus, scilla and allium
Best of all, growing your own means avoiding supermarket bulbs shipped from China
Here’s a shortlist of just some of this year’s ‘must-haves’, along with a guide to reliable suppliers
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
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