This month is a great time to get your seeds on the go. Get them growing under cover to give them a head start and you can enjoy a garden, balcony or container full of your favourites for months to come. Have you ever stopped to think how it all happens? Seeds are incredible little powerhouses of life. After a plant flowers and attracts its preferred pollinator who in some cases have been flitting from flower to flower, pollination will occur, and the ensuing fruits will matu

The start of the growing season or false start as the case may be has been a strange one indeed with many flowers emerging well in advance of their normal flowering period. This of course is thanks to a particularly mild January and winter in general until of course the arrival of this cold snap which is currently blanketing parts of the country in fluffy white snow. Not many people know that I have a background in climate change research more specifically a field called Phen