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. Check the compost regularly to make sure it doesn't dry out.AdamDeadhead the primulas regularly to encourage plenty of fresh, new bloomsMore on daffodils and spring pot displaysCreate a spring pot display of daffodils, celandine and corydalis

, weekly feeding and frequent deadheading do create more work at a time when, to be honest, there are other things I'd rather be doing in the garden. Riding to the rescue have come a growing assortment of succulents - more unusual plants with very few

to chalk up 15 of my 124 target actions. These are mostly by the simple expedient of not cutting the grass, not winter deadheading, clearing out the pond when I repaired it and by having more than my fair share of thickets.The thickets are obviously paying

, with regular deadheading, keep going until the autumn. Propagation is also quite simple: take cuttings from the non-flowering shoots in the summer.I haven't even started on alpine and annual varieties but must mention D. carthusianorum - a really good perennial

in different levels of grandness. All of them flower like anything in late May and June, but continue flowering intermittently until September if you deadhead them.The first is G. 'Mrs Bradshaw'. It is as red as the blood of young pigeons and looks particularly

weeding every year (I'm sure she does it deliberately so she can take time off work to watch Wimbledon). Last week she sliced her thumb open deadheading lavender.It's any wonder we go out into our gardens at all, with the dangers of lawn mowing, pruning

to deadhead half of it after flowering so that I would get a second flush around now but got distracted and now it is too late. Oh well, there is always next year.My second mistake was one of omission: there is an area around my pond consisting of a series

home there. Don't straighten the log pile or alphabetise the flower pots; don't deadhead all the seed capsules or cut back all the wilting leaves; don't fell all the dead wood or grub up the old stump. Instead, leave straggly bits of long grass, leave

the plants, causing them to seed prematurely).Container-grown crops also need watering more than those growing in the ground, as much as once or twice a day in hot weather.Just as sweet peas and other ornamental plants need deadheading to keep them producing

overcoat that has now infected their foliage in my garden (anyone know any resistant varieties?).With regular deadheading and watering I'm hoping to keep my sweet peas going a little longer, generating ever-welcome cut flowers.For me it's also one