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at the back of my south-facing border, close to the wall where they'll be kept warm at night. As an experiment, one is planted in a bucket of semi-rotted compost, like a portable bean trench. All are staked with tall, strong bamboo canes. (They're only about 2

wooden frame a few feet across (try bamboo sticks tied together if that's all you have in the shed).  Attach plain voile net curtain material to the frame by folding over and sewing on, or use drawing pins or a staple gun. Find a willing helper who

the bamboo-like Arundo donax, with its magnificent grey-green stems that can exceed 3m in height. 'Macrophylla' is slightly chunkier than the species Arundo donax, has bigger leaves, and is better suited to smaller gardens.Arundo donax 'Macrophylla'The golden

and crannies insects hibernate in by tying up bamboo and sunflower stems, and leave them in a dry spot in the garden.Provide late-flying insects with a source of food by soaking a clean sponge in a solution made from an equal mix of sugar and water

the tip of my trowel to score a shallow line in the soil, using the edge of a board to keep things straight. Another trick is to press a bamboo cane into the surface. Lift it out and the indentation becomes a neat drill around 0.5cm deep – just right