In his latest YouTube post, the highly respected gardening expert Alan Titchmarsh shared how we can keep our vegetables growing throughout the winter as temperatures begin to drop.

As the days get shorter and the temperatures start to drop as summer turns to autumn, gardening expert Alan Titchmarsh has said that it’s the perfect time for us to get out into our gardens and plant vegetables ready for them to mature next spring.

In the latest gardening advice posted on his YouTube channel, Alan took a trip to his kitchen garden as he explained how the worsening weather in autumn and winter isn’t usually the best condition for growing new vegetables. However, he has now explained how he might have found a “secret” solution.

While he said that most of his vegetables tend to be planted in April and picked in August, he noted that you can get onion sets that grow now.

However, he warned that if you planted them in a traditional outdoor bed they might “rot away”, but highlighted his “secret method” to get them to grow perfectly throughout the winter months.

Revealing how he uses a raised bed instead of the traditional outdoor bed to grow the vegetables, he explained why it is such an effective alternative, saying: “I’m just going to do a few rows of each in here because the fact that it’s raised up means it drains rapidly and gives them that much more chance of getting through the winter.”

However, while he praised the benefits of the raised bed, he claimed that if we are to experience a particularly harsh winter, then they may struggle to survive the effects.

But he claimed that there is a little “insurance policy” that can save the day, as he said: “Get a seed tray and put a few in here. And you can leave these outside in a sheltered spot.”

He added: “When it gets really rough, really cold, really wet, you can just bring them into a shed or garage, and that’ll give them that little bit of protection.”

Away from his latest advice, Alan first took an interest in gardening as a teenager when he became an apprentice gardener.

As the years progressed, his love of horticulture continued to grow, and he received a Diploma in Horticulture at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in 1969.

He later combined his love of gardening with journalism as he started to make radio and TV appearances. Most will know him for his time on Gardeners’ World from 1996 until he was eventually replaced in 2002 by Monty Don.

More recently, he has headed up a number of his own shows, with Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh airing every weekend on ITV.