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thinned apples are much better than unthinned apples.The second area is a bit of border by my kitchen window that, a month ago, was overflowing with Geranium psilostemon, salvias, alliums and Nepeta 'Six Hills Giant' (catmint). Sadly their moment is over

are no longer brown, but covered with the tufts of emerging bluebell leaves.In the garden the mulch (about which I wrote the other day) is no longer a quiet brown duvet over everything but is now pierced by alliums, anthriscus, aconites and loads of other plants

it looks like. (We've had it where I work - very nasty - have to avoid growing onions and all alliums for years!I know that onion beds need to be kept weeded in summer or the onions become stressed and bolt, producing a flower spike that saps all

in any one area. I group my crops into legumes (peas and beans), alliums (onions and garlic) roots (carrots, parsnips and beetroot) and brassicas and leafy crops (cabbages, broccoli and rocket). As well as reducing the likelihood of pests and diseases

: an extraordinarily vigorous plant, which never disappoints. It rockets from nothing to about eight feet and then, over the six months, the white blooms turn into pinkish seedheads.Darn it. What about beech trees, yew hedges, alliums, all sorts of clematis, deep red