How to sow tomato seeds

Making chutney is a great way to use up and preserve your harvests of apples, marrows, courgettes, apricots, beans, beetroot, cauliflower, onions, quince, rhubarb and tomatoes. Got a glut? Discover ways to preserve your harvests. This preserving method uses sugar, salt and vinegar, combined with cooking the fruit or vegetables over a low heat for several hours until the contents reduce and thicken to a glossy sheen. Stored in sterilised jars, sealed correctly and kept in a cold, dry cupboard,

Half-hardy annuals are quick to flower and provide a burst of colour in summer borders and pot displays. Many varieties sown indoors by March or April will start to flower as early as June. To give them as long a flowering season as possible, sow seeds early so that plants have plenty of time to establish before planting out in early summer. They are very sensitive to frost, so must be sown under cover, and only planted out once all risk of frost has passed. In this video guide, Monty Don show

Sowing cyclamen from seed is surprisingly easy, but it’s not a job for the impatient gardener – it can take a year or more before you’re rewarded with beautiful blooms. To produce indoor cyclamen plants you need to use seeds of tender large-flowered varieties, which are available in a wonderful range of colours. Learn how to sow tender cyclamen seeds, below.

The warmth of spring and summer allows you to sow vegetable seeds outdoors in the soil. Here they’ll quickly germinate to produce crops to enjoy this season. More on sowing seeds: How to sow seeds indoors Video: Sowing small seeds Video: Sowing large seeds How deep to sow seeds Try easy-to-grow salads such as radish, spring onion and salad bowl lettuce. You can also use this technique to grow flowering perennials and biennials as well as hardy annuals to brighten up you beds and borders. Sow i