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What's in your shed? If it's anything like mine it will contain some (or all) of the following: tools (some hanging from nails, some lying around on the floor), mowers, plant pots, deckchairs waiting for a sunny day, three bicycles with flat tyres

It's January. The weather outside is pretty ghastly. There is not an enormous amount in the garden worth looking at so we must be more imaginative when seeking out our horticultural pleasures.Often the mundane can be very beautiful if you look hard

To spray, or not to spray? That is indeed the question.A couple of decades ago it was not really a question worth asking: pretty much every gardener killed stuff indiscriminately. Aphids? Aaarghh ... squirt. Mildew? Gothcha … squirt. Worm casts

plastic bullets and rubbery missiles. Those of you who are male and of a certain age will definitely remember them. As a teenager, it became even simpler: an envelope containing crisp notes rather than trusting the dubious tastes of one’s relatives

it in a container. You may have noticed that the centre is soon pretty barren and all the shoots are on the edge: if you leave it like that the plant will surely die, for it will have nowhere to go and a mint that has nowhere to go is a doomed plant