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Deadhead border plants, unless you want to collect their seedsSpray gladioli to prevent thrips damage to leaves and flowersPick herbs and everlasting flowers for dryingBuy or build compost bins to help recycle all your kitchen and garden wasteCollect seeds

privetKeep mowing the lawn regularlyDeadhead border plants, unless you want to collect seedsPick everlasting flowers or herbs for dryingOrder flower bulbs for autumn planting including colchicum, daffodils and other spring bulbsLook out for developing

Chelsea is the best show in the world, so they perform their socks off.This year we are growing organic herbs for, not only our display, but also for two of the large show gardens. This is how a small organic nursery covers the cost of putting on its own

, Thymus Jekka are looking perfect, but I don’t know how they will hold. We have produced some great plants for Cleve West, who has designed the BUPA garden. He will have some giant angelicas, Angelica archangelica in full flower. I love this herb

that shade ripening tomatoes. Pick parsley leaves when young for the best flavour.More inspiration for edible container featuresLearn how to grow your own display of edible herbs.Start growing fruit with a strawberry hanging basket.Plant a lavender garden

Fluctuating growth rates cause tomatoes to suddenly expand. This might happen after a period of drought followed by generous watering, or low temperatures followed by a sudden sunny spell. The split might then become infected, causing the tomatoes to rot.Tomatoes split open while...

Plant onion sets in modular trays of compost, raising plants under cover to plant out laterRepair netting on fruit cagesContinue forcing sea kale and chicoryBuy herbs to plant up in containers that you can position near the housePlant out shallots

Protect pots of seedlings from the cold by making mini-cloches from empty plastic bottlesPrick out seedlings once they have developed their first true leavesOpen doors and greenhouse vents on warm days to improve ventilationSow herbs into pots

of herbs now, including coriander and parsleySow seeds of vegetables, includes lettuce and salad leaves, rocket, carrots, beetroot, calabrese, cauliflower, spinach, chicory

fruitsPick fresh herbs to freeze in ice cubes for winter use, or to hang and dry to store in jars