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of seed and scatter thinly along the drill or you will waste seed and spend more time thinning out.Use a trowel or your fingers to cover seeds with 0.5cm of soil. Label the rows and water using a watering can with a rose attachment.Thin seedlings out once

the rootball from the pot and gently separate each plant with a pencil.In a new pot containing multi-purpose compost, make planting holes with your pencil. Then, holding each seedling by its leaves, gently tease the roots into the planting hole. Firm the soil

could use a pre-marked board for accurate spacing.Thin out the weaker seedlings to give your plants room to grow, so you're left with just one plant every 10cm.AdamIn warmer districts and on light soils, try to sow the parsnip seeds in February and March

point when seedlings have two-three pairs of leaves, to encourage bushy growth. Harden the plants off before planting out.AdamSweet peas are climbing plants and need structures to grow up. Use wires, netting or twine to tie in stems to their supports

Mole hills - piles of fresh, excavated soil - don't fully convey the extent of one mole's underground tunnel system, which can cover a surprisingly large area. If a young plant isn't developing, it could be due to tunnelling beneath it. Seedlings

-infection. This is particularly important in autumn when the spores can overwinter on fallen leaves to contaminate seedlings or new growth in spring. Prune out infected growth and maintain an open centre to shrubs to allow good air circulation through the plant.Spray the plant

, short-lived plants, which can produce many generations in a single season by setting large amounts of seed. Pull out young plants individually by hand or hoe off young seedlings and remove them from the soil surface before they get a chance to set seed

of sycamore keys in one claw whilst using its tin-opener beak to extract the seeds. Sycamore is such a vigorously invasive tree, so perhaps the parakeets can now keep the seedlings in check.

Once spring is sprung it really does get going! My plot is a mass of potato leaves creeping out over the mounds of ridged earth, seedlings sprouting sturdily out of the ground almost as I watch. But of course, there's a hearty selection of common

to wait until these are ripe before collecting seeds. In addition to agapanthus I've regularly developed viable seeds on eucomis and galtonia, too. These can be collected and sown, but you'll need patience if you want these to flower, as seedlings of most