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, climb in and push the liner into every nook, pleating it for a neater finish. Allow a 15cm overlap at the edges.Fill your pond, preferably with rain water, left to fill up naturally, or from your water butt. If you need to use tap water, leave

be shaded in summer but not too sheltered from the rain.Weed-smothering membraneChicken wireFour tree stakesHammerRubber malletWire or twineautumnan hourCut a piece of weed-smothering membrane to about 1m², allowing a little extra at the edges to tuck around

the process by turning your heap occasionally with a garden fork, to aerate it, mixing the outside ingredients to the inside. Make sure you cover your bin to keep the rain out.When the mixture turns brown and crumbly, and very slightly sweet smelling

, hanging baskets and other containers. The roots of the plants grow around the saturated granules to draw moisture as they need it.AdamDon't worry about the lawn in dry weather. It will soon recover the next time it rains.Grow drought-tolerant plants

My running's not going very well. I've done something to the heel of my right foot and it was pouring with rain on Sunday morning, so my heart really wasn't in it. But I went anyway, even if it was only for half an hour. Peckham Rye Park is my

and partly blown away. It'll certainly keep the rain out.On Sunday I'm down to the last few handfuls of muddy silt in the deep end. I'd been sieving the last few bucket loads and the overwintering insect larvae were coming out thick and fast. In virtually

the rain, protects from the sun and - if it is really hot - can be filled with water and slammed on the head as a cooling shower. At the moment I have four. There were more but a dog ate one and another was snaffled as headgear for a bonfire night guy

Since Christmas the weather has been almost universally ghastly - rain, fog, leaden skies and general Januaryness. Over the last couple of days, however, I have noticed everything change; the skies are blue and the sun is shining. In the hedges buds

in Hampshire). If you follow her advice, never again will your garden suffer from that August slump. (She also used to play octopush for England).You will notice that I have studiously avoided mentioning the rain that has done its best to flatten every one

Blackbirds ate my cherries, the plum crop was non-existent, but now it's apple time! And what a wonderful year it's been. The relentless August rain ruined so much this year, including holiday plans for many I'm sure, but my apples seem to have