Local nurseries aren't in panic mode when it comes to this week's extended cold, but they're not taking any chances either.

Plastic fruit containers are reusable in countless ways. Instead of throwing them out, try repurposing your used plastic ...

IT may still be the bleak mid-winter, but January is an important gardening month to prepare for the spring ahead. This is ...

Shoveling snow onto garden beds can protect plants during winter. Snow acts as a blanket, insulating the soil and preventing ...

Snow cover provides a heavy blanket of winter mulch that insulates the soil, prevents heat from escaping and keeps soil ...

From mid-February you can sow tomato and cucumber seeds for growing in greenhouses, and plant out garlic and shallots in ...

As winter slowly comes to an end, February is a month when, weather permitting, gardeners can get on with jobs which will give them a head start for spring. It doesn’t just have to be outdoors. If ...

Gardeners across the UK are being told of some 'must-do' gardening to take on in February that will give you a head start for ...

From sowing seeds indoors to pruning shrubs and deadheading winter flowers, there are plenty of gardening tasks to prepare ...

If the ground is suitable for outdoor sowing (not frozen or waterlogged) and you live in a mild area, you could try sowing vegetables such as broad beans, cabbages, carrots and parsnips under cloches, ...

Your container-grown violas and pansies may have been sulking over winter, but if you deadhead them now, they should come ...