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to kill. But I've started to feel some very untoward thoughts about a certain visitor to our garden. The sparrowhawk is a huge creature, with beautiful regal plumage. But rather like the excessively good-looking human, it has a less attractive side. I

Autumn is the ideal time to evaluate our successes and failures in the garden. What worked well this year? What didn't? On my veg plot, though, this process is pretty much continual. Photographers from Gardeners' World magazine are always turning up

to spot in the fruit, if you leave the container of picked berries in your kitchen for an hour, you’re likely to see the culprits appear around the edges of the bowl.Sadly, the recent wet weather seems to have exacerbated the problem, because affected

, or contain seeds that I’ll never use will all have to go. I’ll also ditch the seed tray labels that have turned brittle through prolonged exposure to sunlight, and have no space left on them for plant names.The last few weeks of damp, with the greenhouse