The top five vegetables and flowers you can plant straight into the soil NOW from sunflowers to beetroots

MANY of you will have heat mats, propagation sets and windowsills heaving with seedlings ready to pot on. But if you’re more a “get it straight in the ground” kind of gardener, there’s lots you can directly sow this month. Your soil will, hopefully, be drying out and warming up, which is essential for germination...