Gardens Illustrated Magazine

STIRRING THE ROOTS

I am not sure that when TS Eliot described April as ‘the cruellest month’ in his epic poem The Wasteland, he had vegetable gardening in mind, but for those of us trying to get ahead with our sowing and planting in this most changeable of months, it is a description that often rings true.

Of course, the opposite also applies.

April can also bring the most benign

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