ROB’S PLOT LET’S GET GOING!

With a little effort and equipment, February is the month when it really does start to feel like we are entering the growing year ahead. If you have a greenhouse, cold frame, tunnel or even just a cloche, you can start to think about growing and finally getting seed in the ground.

If you have a heated propagator and grow lights, it’s the ideal time to start sowing aubergines and sweet peppers as they take a long growing season to produce to their potential. Gone are the days when these bits of gardening equipment used to be very expensive and out of the reach of most of us; in fact, they have come down in price so much in recent years that you can even get