Heat, good light levels, sufficient moisture and good quality compost are all important

March is a great time to mow the lawn – or a great time not to mow it

Laitenberger gives dirt-under-the-fingernails guidance in ‘The Self Sufficient Garden’

Early tomatoes can be sown in a pot on a windowsill or in an electric propagator

Feel like getting your hands dirty? These pointers will kick-start your garden's return to loveliness

‘We’re holding off taking orders until things become clearer’: some British suppliers suspend mail service

The pandemic’s black cloud came with a silver lining: the joy of digging and planting

No idea what to buy for the gardener in your life? Let us plant some ideas in your brain

Enjoy your garden through the cold months while laying the groundwork for spring

October/November are the ideal months to start growing apples, pears and plums

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

If we have learned anything, it’s a new appreciation for traditional propagating skills

Here are some fun ways to share the special magic of gardening in the months ahead

Many different kinds of vegetables can be sown directly into the ground now

If you have a sunny spot to spare, these are the flowers to plant out

It’s a spring like no other but there are still seeds to be sown and plants to be tended

Online orders for Irish seeds rise dramatically in wake of Covid-19 restrictions

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

We can easily recreate the sense of an Australian rainforest, leafy Asian woodland or a sun-baked Mediterranean garden, at home

Itching to get going in the kitchen garden or allotment? Here’s a handful of crops to start growing now

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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

From “Brexit” seeds to hanging pots – what to give the green fingered person in your life

Calendula, tagetes, sweet pea and poppies are just a few of the season’s flavours

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

New book shows all sides of this Irish horticultural genius and his beloved Hunting Brook in west Wicklow

Here’s a shortlist of just some of this year’s ‘must-haves’, along with a guide to reliable suppliers

Add colour and texture to the garden with these hardy perennials

Deer find certain plants delicious, like camellia and roses, but they don’t like rhurbarb

Don’t buy from a garden centre in early autumn, propagate from seed sown now

Climate change is a focus for some of Ireland’s top gardeners at Phoenix Park festival

Grow them as a shrub or small tree in a lawn, an informal hedge, or even trained against a high wall where their foliage will act as a foil for flowering plants

Now is the time to start planting pots that will burst into colour in high summer. Artist and gardener TJ Maher shares some of his secrets for maximising their impact

Let’s celebrate some of the loveliest flowering plants for the Irish garden