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damaged during a break in.What's the answer? Don't leave valuables in your shed? So where else can they go? I'd always recommend making your garden as secure as possible by locking gates and putting up fences and walls. Police often recommend planting

at Chelsea, designing for Cancer Research UK. When we saw it there was a vast canopy covering a lot of the garden: so large that it had become known among the other gardeners as "the petrol station". However, this was before the plants arrived - I'm certain

, even using compost. Then there's plant sap - euphorbia is particularly dangerous, as it can cause temporary blindness.I'm lucky I only stubbed my toe, even if it did look a lot worse. But what about you? Have you ever come a cropper in the garden?

Are you off on holiday? I do hope so. A week or two spent lying around not doing much is an excellent way of restoring a gardener’s energy and enthusiasm. Maybe you would rather charge about being active instead, never happier than when going for a

their lawn was dead (well, mine did look dead) when I wrote about drought damage in the garden in my July blog, but didn't I tell you it would recover once rain came? Not that I'm feeling smug with my prediction. It's just that plants are great survivors

January already: Christmas neatly tucked away and another year of fabulous gardening stretching away ahead of us. The beginning of the year is the time for fresh starts and change but, rather than pestering you with annoying resolutions which few

at the nearest car boot sale. I was devastated at the time, but quickly accepted it as an inevitable part of allotment life.Garden theft isn't just perpetrated by lone opportunists. Gardening is big business, and so is 'organised' garden crime. Rare plants

wreath virtually impossible). I realised this as I ventured into my garden and settled for hanging my creation on the wall, rather than risk someone stealing it from my front gate. It doesn’t really say ‘Christmas’ in the way I had hoped.Having never made

News that Monty Don will be returning to Gardeners' World has really got you talking! Hundreds have responded to my blog from last Wednesday about the changing presenter line-up when Gardeners' World returns next March. In fact, this is the biggest