Alan Titchmarsh issues urgent winter warning to gardeners growing herbs

Ground Force fable Alan Titchmarsh has enactment retired a bid of tips via Gardeners World to assistance gardeners support their precious herb gardens successful the freezing acold wintertime months

Green-fingered Brits who've been nurturing herb gardens are being warned to brace their beloved plants for winter's chill.

Ground Force icon Alan Titchmarsh has shared his contented via Gardeners' World, offering a lifeline of tips to support those precious herbs from succumbing to the frosty clasp of the colder months. From ail to basil and the hardier sage and rosemary, Alan advises adjacent attraction during the icy spells, peculiarly with snowfall forecasted by the Met Office successful the adjacent future.

Now's the time, helium suggests, to safeguard your herbal treasures. Alan said: "Where would we beryllium without the herbs that flavour our food?" He highlighted the resilience of definite herbs, noting: "Even successful winter, with things similar bay successful beauteous wintertime soups and stews, being evergreen it tin enactment retired each twelvemonth round, successful each but the coldest localities."

He besides mentioned rosemary's robust nature, capable to withstand the garden's year-round climate. However, helium pointed retired that not each herbs are arsenic tough, saying: "Other perennial herbs similar mint and chives which thin to dice down successful wintertime - their involvement and their savoury uses tin beryllium prolonged by digging them up present and making definite that you're putting them successful a spot wherever done the wintertime you tin transportation connected encouraging them to grow."

Alan past demonstrated however to transplant chives indoors, advising viewers to trim excess foliage and replant them successful a tray aft division, reports the Express. Alan shared his gardening wisdom, saying: "I similar to enactment a clump similar this successful a clay cookware with immoderate mean peat escaped compost."

He besides highlighted the benefits of indoor herb gardening: "The imaginable of having caller chives close done the wintertime much than makes up for the spot of enactment you enactment into it. You tin bash the aforesaid with mint too."

Meanwhile, Gardeners World issued a warning: "Wet conditions termination much herbs successful wintertime than the cold, truthful spot container-grown perennials specified arsenic oregano, thyme, sage and rosemary successful a sheltered presumption against a partition oregon the broadside of the location oregon garage.

"This volition trim the magnitude of rainfall hitting the cookware by astir 25 per cent."