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Want to know the optimum time to sow runner beans, transplant cabbage and harvest your courgettes? Or when to water celery, how to banish carrot fly and why not digging your garden is more productive? Learning how to sow, grow, harvest and store the tastiest crops is made easy, one vegetable at a time, thanks to a new online course…

Whether planting potatoes or cultivating herbaceous borders, the Scots have long been known as a nation of gardeners. Murdo Macdonald (63), from Edinburgh, makes his debut as a presenter of a new series called Gàrraidhean Mòra na h-Alba/ Gardens of Scotland on BBC ALBA this month which celebrates some of Scotland’s most important gardens due to their design, plant-life, setting…

With 2020 seeing a gardening boom and many forced to consider their career options, the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is giving 40 green-fingered applicants the chance to train at one of the charity’s five gardens from 2021. Up 8% on last year, the RHS is searching for new recruits across its apprenticeship, student and specialist placement programmes including, for the…

Every year, January brings the desire for major lifestyle changes and self-improvements, whether it be drinking less, moving more or a brand new trend – ‘Regenuary’. But what about positive changes you can make in your garden? For the green fingered, a garden is never complete – it needs TLC to thrive. So, why not channel positive energy into your…