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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.Forcing

the snow in their stride - by running and flapping their wings at the same time they can travel at nearly the same speed as usual.The wild birds are out in force. Like many others at this time of year, I’m spending an inordinate amount of time feeding

compared to the infernos in Greece but probably quite scary if you were there. Two months later and although the hillside is still blackened and sooty the first signs of regeneration were on the way as strands of tough dune grass were already forcing

at the show in force, both filming for Friday evening's programme (available to watch for the next few days on BBC iPlayer), and also in action around the show. Toby gave a wonderful talk on the development of Greenacre - the new TV garden - while Carol

There currently appears to be the largest quantity of ladybird pupae I've ever seen in my garden. I'm not sure whether they are pupae of the standard UK ladybirds or the notorious harlequin, but they are here in force. Just the other day a friend

organically, so my main line of defence up till now has been to plant mostly first early potatoes (blight tends to strike later in the season). I have grown 'Sarpo' varieties which have a greater resistance to blight, but when a warning is in force or signs

to me than the bricks and mortar), but I don't secure it in the same way. It wouldn't take much for someone to hop over the back gate, force open the shed and remove its contents. Again, there's nothing expensive inside, but it's all useful

in this way, since the pressures of climate change force them to return to growing (more resilient) native plants using traditional methods. The Incas inspired me, too, despite the fact that I'll never have a mountain to carve a garden out of, or a waterfall

theory that the lack of light 'forces' sunflowers to grow taller, and some would-be record-breakers place upturned plant pots over their sunflowers to achieve the same effect. Last year I grew a sunflower to a height of about about 2.5m without trying

and loganberries have been alive with bees helping to pollinate an abundance of bloom. Desperately dry conditions in my area of the East Midlands have forced me to water regularly to support new canes development, as these new canes will carry the crop next year