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Meet Martyn Cox

Martyn Cox trained in horticulture at Writtle College, Essex and has many years practical gardening experience. He writes a weekly gardening column in The Mail on Sunday, and monthly for Saga Magazine, Grow It! and Sainsbury's Magazine. He is the author of Gardening with Kids (Ryland, Peters and Small) and 101 Plants for Problem Places (BBC Books).

• Read Martyn Cox's Getting down to it every month in Saga Magazine

How to sow sweet peas

Fed up with winter? Then sow some sweet peas now and you can cheer yourself up by thinking ahead to the warmer days of summer, advises Martyn Cox. Find out how to sow sweet peas

Gardening masterclass archive

• Winter survival guide for houseplants

• Autumn lawn care

• Controlling slugs and snails

• Creature comforts - encouraging biodiversity in your garden

• Fear no weevil

• Grow your best tomatoes

• Growing and caring for hippeastrum

• Healthier plants at a snip - how to prune

• Help alpines survive winter

• Holiday care for plants

• How to buy, plant and grow bulbs

• How to fit a water butt

• How to make a wildlife pond

• How to make leaf mould

• How to move a shrub

• How to plant up a hanging basket

• How to prepare your soil for spring planting

• How to protect exotic plants over winter

• How to prune topiary

• How to sell your garden

• How to tidy up ornamental grasses

• Lasagne planting bulbs

• Make a bee friendly garden

• Masterclass – Grow your own mixed salad leaves

• Masterclass – How to tackle aphids

• Masterclass – Make a wildlife pond

• Masterclass – Perk up your autumn garden

• Masterclass – Starting a vegetable garden

• Mulch to save moisture

• Planting a tree

• Pruning clematis

• Pruning wisteria

• Sow some sweet peas

• Summer care for ponds

• Use free software to design a garden

• Winter care for garden birds

• Winter care of pots

• Winter care of trees and shrubs

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