Spring Gardening: What to Sow, Plant, Prune and Prepare from Late Winter to Early Summer for a Productive Vegetable and Flower Garden

A run of soft, bright days arrives in March, the blackbirds start shouting from the chimney pots and the garden centre car park fills with trays of bedding. A fortnight later a clear, still night slides below freezing, and by breakfast the petunias look like boiled lettuce. Spring is the most exciting season in the garden and the most impatient one, and impatience is expensive.

This book is about getting the timing right, from late winter to early summer, across the vegetable plot, the fru...