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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

What a glorious Sunday in the garden yesterday, and driving my daughter to school at 7.30 this morning the temperature was already 23°C and rising. It probably didn't fall much below that all night, and though a bit restless for me the greenhouse

pretty garden and home-grown veg.Starting indoors, there's a propagator, containing seedlings of basil and garlic chives, which are in dire need of transplanting. I also need to pot on the sunflowers I'm growing as part of the Gardeners' World sunflower

of coming up with the name of the plant, I was instantly transported back to the kitchen of the house I grew up in. On red floor tiles just inside the pantry, next to bottles of squash and my mum's wine-making kit, was a brown ceramic vase containing dried

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