Kate Garraway has said she is focussing on her gardening in a hope it will help "improve" the health of her family.
The ITV presenter gave a new update on her husband, Derek Draper, following his nightmare battle with coronavirus two years ago.
Spending months in hospital, some of which was in a coma, Derek suffered multiple health complications due to the virus, with the father-of-two now back at their family home.
Caring for both Derek and her children, Kate has shared a great deal of how she has coped in the last couple of years, with two documentaries since following their lives.
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This week, Kate explained how gardening has helped her through the ordeal, and has been trying to grow plants to "improve our health and wellbeing", reports the Mirror.
Appearing on Love Your Garden this week, she said: "The garden needs to be more than a space to go into. I really want to grow some plants to improve our health and wellbeing."
As she began work on her garden, Kate admitted she was excited about the prospect.
"I love the idea that there's plants that look good, smell good and do good. I hope it works," she said, as she started work on her garden, which will feature three different plant beds - one for plants that can be used to make tea, another with medicinal plants, including those with antioxidants and perennials, as well as a separate aromatherapy bed.
By the end of the programme, Kate explained what her gardening experience had taught her.
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"If you look past the initial beauty of the plants, it can give you so much more. I haven’t quite proved you can grow yourself well but I think I’ve definitely learnt you can grow yourself happier," she said.
Kate previously gave an update about Derek's health, explaining how the whole battle has affected both him and her.
"I don't know about mental wellbeing if I'm absolutely honest, because he is still so affected in terms of communication and mobility that I wouldn't feel qualified to say whether it had had an impact in terms of depression and anxiety," she said recently.
"I mean it must be I would have thought, because if you are still unable to communicate and very challenged mobility wise, and lung, and all the other things, then that is going to affect..."
She added: "It's interesting isn't it that now at last... everything was focused on the lungs, and then people were understanding there is fatigue, which is actually a neurological problem anyway, and now more and more we are realising the wider impact."
