Amateur Gardening

Prepare winter protection

THERE’S a definite sense of impending autumn now, and while temperatures are still mild here in the south, the nights are increasingly chilly and further north the cold may really be starting to bite.

It’s time to start clearing greenhouses, coldframes and mini greenhouses to get them ready for

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