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Winter is the season to set the groundwork for the next growing cycle – from planting trees and garlic to preparing the soil Chores for the month  As the cold bites, autumn’s mellow fruitfulness seems long gone, but it’s not forgotten because winter is the season for fruit tree planting. What you plant will depend […]

Autumn is harvesting and nature’s planting time in the garden. Here’s what to gather, sow and grow this month Chores “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,” wrote Keats in his sumptuous ode to the glories of autumn. For the gardener, it is a time of harvest, when the fruit filled “with ripeness to the core” […]

Late winter isn’t the time to put away the gumboots and spade. Keep up with the gardening chores because spring is just round the corner Pot to pot Potato planting time is upon us, and with it the thrill and incomparable flavour of homegrown spuds in early summer. Often, when space is an issue, potatoes […]