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It's easy to consider bees and birds when gardening – we see plenty of them if we grow the right plants – but what about bats? Emerging from their roosts at dusk and returning by dawn, they can often go unnoticed.My partner is a huge fan of bats

To celebrate Gardeners' World Magazine's Harvest Week, running from 12-18 September, I thought I'd share a few of my favourite easy harvest recipes. One of them is a salad - so isn't technically a recipe - but it's so good it's worth a mention

. They are easy, cheap, and fast growing, but they're also short-lived and therefore disposable. I'd rather wait for my perennial plants to grow into the borders and sow a few cosmos seeds in the gaps, than get into the cycle of buying - and replacing - annual

it off. And then a mouse moved in. I had a mouse living in my rat trap.It’s often noted that rats don’t like wet compost heaps, nor do they like loud noises. It’s therefore easy to evict them because you simply keep your compost moist and bang the bin

pot. The poor thing didn't have a hope.So to recap: if you grow tomatoes indoors you will need to pollinate them. This is easy as the male and female parts are contained within each flower. Just give the plant a good shake to dislodge the pollen. Water

, to the untrained eye, they are not that easy to identify. This means we can't just squish them in order to save our native species (and squishing is a bit cruel - it's not their fault they came over). The harlequin comes in many different colour forms, many of them

by fences and hedges – things that make it easy to travel between them. It backs on to a cycle path, has walls on either side and is surrounded by concrete. Yet here it is, a mouse, living in my compost bin.The great thing about mice is that they have

to having such a wreath - home-made of course - but for now I took the easy option of making a single frame using gardening wire. My wreath doesn’t need to last very long and I can live with it being a little on the thin side. I wanted a natural

. This is probably because many moths are brown, can be difficult to identify and most are nocturnal. But some are easy to identify and many are exceptionally beautiful, such as the garden tiger (Arctia caja), pictured above, which has declined by 92 per cent

important not to confuse bumblebees with wasps. I don't want to be responsible for any deaths.Moving bumblebee nests is easy if you know what you're doing. It's best to do it at night when most of the bees are back in the nest. Bumblebees don't fly