Use potato beds to plant for spring colour and summer flavour

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

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

It may be cold and muddy but there’s pruning, planting and planning to be done

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

Fionnuala Fallon: Preparation put in over coming weeks will be repaid tenfold in future months

Follow the three Ds by using secateurs to remove any dead, diseased or dying wood

You need barrow-loads of intelligence and creativity, a strong back and green fingers

Not much happens in the January garden but it's a good time to find summer inspiration in seed catalogues

This year’s fine crop tackles everything from wartime gardens to a guide to propagation

Trees to plant, gloves to wear, cards to write trowels to dig, seeds to sow and a pad to rest

It's a busy month in the gardening year. Time to tidy the summer pots and start planting for winter greens

Even with the hosepipe ban, you can coax a decent harvest over the coming months

Spring is on the way and the ground is warming up. It’s time to start planting

The all-important business of seed sowing is just around the corner

Even the loveliest ponds need some tough love every 5-10 years to stay free of encroaching weeds

Even a small suburban garden can host 25-30 species of birds in winter

Colour creates an atmosphere of tranquillity as easily as one of excitement and energy

We preview the best of this year’s festival, which kicks off in the Phoenix Park on June 1st