Good crops start with good seed and with more spring crop likely next year, it could pay to get orders for spring barley seed in early. At the same time as making variety selections and ordering seed, ...

Gardening expert Benedict Vanheems says there are six key vegetable seeds to sow that should be done in the first weeks of ...

We tend to think of spring as peak seed-sowing season, but you can get a head start in your garden by planting certain vegetable and flower seeds now. Not only will this help reduce your workload when ...

It’s proving to be a gloomy spring, and not just in terms of a lack of sunshine. Growers have spring crops with headlands that have rotted off in the March rain, they are struggling to get inputs on ...

WINTER is on its way and with a ‘cold blast' set to hit Britain in the coming weeks, many of us may be dreaming of the spring sunshine already. Agapanthus flowers will flourish in a sun-soaked garden, ...

Gardening legend Alan Titchmarsh has given any green-fingered fans an urgent tip to ensure a prosperous flowering season next spring. In his exclusive column in the Mirror, he said it's correct that ...

September is a bountiful time in a vegetable garden, and some may regard it as a period when the plot is winding down after the summer peak. The reality is that it is a fabulous time to sow crops and ...

Growers are being urged to test and/or treat farm-saved spring crop seed for diseases such as loose smut and seed-borne net blotch. With winter cereal drilling only about 70-75% complete before autumn ...

For signs of just how exceptionally cold this spring has been, look to the fields of rural Britain. Farmers are reporting stunted crops and ground that is still to hard to drill at a time when wheat ...