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and firm gently.Sow one seed per pot - sunflowers germinate reliably and form large seedlings. Poke the seed into the compost.Cover the seed with about 1.5cm of compost. Label each pot and water well so that the compost is just moist throughout.Cover each

or piece of clingfilm to keep the compost moist.Remove the cover from the pot when seedlings appear. If growing your tomatoes on a windowsill, turn the pot regularly to prevent the plants growing towards the light and becoming distorted.Pot on the tomato

of thinning the seedlings releases the carrot's scent. Plant strong-smelling crops, such as garlic, onions, shallots and leeks adjacent to the carrots. Follow a strict crop rotation plan, avoiding growing carrots on the same site in consecutive years

in soft, new growth, young stems are toppled, seedlings vanish overnight, and slime trails are left behind.Go out at night with a torch and collect slugs by hand. Set traps in the border, such as upturned grapefruit skins, the slugs will hide under them

outside, due to the cold, frosty snap a couple of weeks ago. The seedlings have started to pop up, producing their strange, grass-like seed leaves. It's staggering to think these fragile babies turn into something so gigantic.It all goes to show what a

to be scattered onto the surrounding soil when the pods eventually ripen and split.There isn't much bare soil around my hellebores, but somehow a rash of seedlings always develops. I can then delve in with a trowel and transplant them to fill gaps around

easily, like mustard and cress, so I always sow them straight away. Just sprinkle onto the surface of moist compost, and don't cover them. The seedlings are tiny, so let them grow to a manageable size before pricking them out.Left to their own devices, it

a nice crop of seedlings next year, to either leave to bloom or lift and transplant elsewhere.So, which other flowers are as generous as V. bonariensis in their self-seeding habit? In my garden I'm rewarded with seedlings of foxgloves, hellebores

failed again).The temperature has been so high during the day that I’ve had to remove the lids from two propagators, to prevent them from ‘boiling’ the seedlings. I keep a couple of watering cans close by, as the plants are guzzling water

, then three-quarters fill with compost.Position the pine seedling centrally in the box, then plant the tulip bulbs on either side of it (at a depth of three times the length of bulb), and the primroses in front of them.Place an ivy at either end of the box