Part one: Overwintering your veg plot starts now

Fiann Ó Nualláin says you don’t have to wait to next summer to reap a food crop, so begin planting early. 

When I was a kid I remember being told in school that plants grow in summer and die or hibernate in winter — okay Miss, wisdom received.

Then I ended up on an allotment with my grandfather in the middle of winter, frosty breath translating our conversation into smoke signals and the cold in my toes — even with two pair of socks on.