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the Christmas decorations to the shed this morning - always a tinge of sadness - I stopped off at the greenhouse to harvest the last of our Christmas potatoes.We planted a variety of spuds in pots and compost sacks when we got back from holiday at the beginning

-fruiting raspberries do need staking: tie them to a fence or wires or they will flail about.We used to grow both kinds on our last plot, but since we now have a large strawberry bed, the first half of summer is well provided for. Half of our raspberry bed contains

to prepare the bed with, they'll thank you for it later. You can also grow onions in a container. The old polystyrene fish boxes I use are 40cm deep and work fine.You can still sow runner beans if you haven't already done so. The soil is warm and the danger

I'm going to copy a lovely combination I saw at a friend's house, also grown at the allotment. My friend's vase contained yellow sunflowers and yellow dahlias (any yellow dahlia will do) and what looked like pale yellow daisies with a chocolate

of the offsets so that you have a few leaves and a bit of root at the bottom. You can either pot this on till you are ready to plant out, or, put it where it will live permanently.  At this stage plants can be a bit vulnerable, so they need watering well