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and wind - drier conditions and improved air circulation should help control the infection without the need to resort to using a spray.

to improve drainage. I'll probably resort to raiding the kids' sandpit, and the sand used to fill in the drainage holes.I'll also soon be out protecting my emerging daffodils with twine and canes. They're starting to appear along the drive near the lawn

.Until the weather improves this activity raises my spirits. I even wonder if I should start growing that brown rice myself...

aluminium foil sheets around the plants, in the hope that they will help to reflect light back on the seedlings and improve their chances of growing into healthy plants.I can never find a decent, slimline dibber, so use a blunt pencil instead. I find

repeated each year!First on my list of 'revolutions' is the vow to improve my meagre success with carrots. Only the purple varieties seem to work for me, so I'll be sticking with them in 2009; I think I'll skip a year before trying orange cultivars again

. The recent wet weather has left just about everything in my garden covered in water, and as temperatures have been mild, algae has spread.The soil here is clay, which I've spent many years improving with garden compost, manure and leaf mould. Algae and some