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-sided tape. Leave about 5cm excess at the edges.Use a hairdryer to blow the film until all the wrinkles disappear and it goes tight. Snip off the surplus film with a pair of scissors.AdamUse garden wire and pegs to anchor your cloche to the soil.More advice

tight, and spray. Leave the pole and marked string in place.Make a mortar mix - five parts building sand to one part cement. Starting with the sprayed straight edges, lay the first course of blocks, placing them on their longest end, on a bed of mortar 5

round30 minutesCut a piece of tape that's long enough to fit around your pot then, using the pinking shears, cut a decorative edging along one side.Carefully stick the tape just below the rim of the pot. Remove a little bit of the backing at a time

, but the health of the tree won't suffer.An outbreak of shiny black blotches, edged in a ring of yellow, disfigure acer leaves in early summer. This can lead them to fall prematurely.Rake up and dispose of all fallen infected leaves. As a preventative measure use

Nesting female bees cut out immediately obvious elliptical shapes from the edges of a leaf to make their cells for laying eggs. Since one female might need 20 or so cells, that's a lot of leaf cutting, particularly when the bee keeps returning

on foliage.Yellow to white mottling of upper surface of leaves. Whole leaf may become puckered and turn brown at the edges.Cover a piece of stiff card with grease or contact adhesive and hold it above the infected plants while lightly brushing the foliage

or disease attackKeep fruit bushes covered with netting, then weave a cane through the bottom edge and peg it down to stop birds crawling underneathMake the final pickings of rhubarb and cut any flower spikes that form right down to their baseLift early

.Plan your seed-sowing year Trim lawn edges to keep the area neat and tidy Apply residual path weedkillers Around the gardenPlant lilies in large patio pots for summer displaysPrune shrub roses to low new shootsCut overgrown honeysuckle stems close

of hardy annual flowers Lightly clip box edging and topiary to neaten them upFlowersPush twigs into the ground to support tall-growing peasFeed strawberries with a high potash feedSow flowering companions in your veg plotFruit & vegPlant tomatoes in large

Shape box topiary Clipped box topiary adds style, elegance and fun to the garden. It can be grown as individual trained geometric shapes and standard specimens in borders or large pots, as well as dwarf hedges or edgings. To keep topiary in shape