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a sheet of paper, making sure you remove all the seeds. Pick out any bugs or pieces of debris.Funnel the seeds into paper envelopes, not plastic bags. Write full details of the plant on the envelope, including the date.AdamPut envelopes of seed

down to the bulbs.Divide the snowdrop clumps by tearing them apart. This can be done when they are in leaf or even in flower. Pick off flowerheads to conserve the energy in the bulbs.Use a hand trowel to replant small clumps of six to eight bulbs. Make

Nothing beats the taste of freshly-picked sweetcorn in late summer and growing your own couldn't be easier. Sow your own seeds or buy young seedlings to plant now and grow them in a block on the veg plot. Or use them decoratively, planting them

-long, nocturnal caterpillars strip the leaves off fuchsias during the second half of summer. They hide under the leaves during the day. Keep a constant lookout, particularly at dusk, for the caterpillars and pick them off, moving them to a clump of wildflowers

of leaf edges, roots damaged, plant suddenly wilts and dies.Go out at night with a torch and pick off the adults. To kill the larvae, in August/early September treat the compost with a predatory nematode, which is sold by mail order.Few insecticides

. Plants can be weakened by recurrent attacks, especially if they occur early in the season.Leaves are disfigured by poorly defined purple-brownish-black blotches. The leaves then turn yellow and fall. Stems might also be affected. Pick up and destroy

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.It will regrow from sections of stems left behind after hoeing or weeding, so you need to be thorough when trying to get rid of it, picking out any piece of foliage. If possible, get under the roots with a spade to slice it out. If it's in the lawn, carefully

% better than most of the others, but it is late July when my tastebuds go crazy for what I call REAL tomatoes, those picked fresh and often a bit warm from the greenhouse, not just in ones and twos as you get at the beginning of the season