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As container-grown fruit and veg start to crop, it's important keep your eye on the ball to ensure they stay productive. I've just harvested a small batch of French beans from my late container sowing as part of the Grow Yourself Healthy campaign

premium.However, this year I decided to grow my onions from seed, and I've just been assessing the results. Yes, I did need to sow them in modular trays in the greenhouse in March, and could have started them even earlier if I'd had a heated propagator

potager – a walk-through area with beds planted prettily with vegetables instead of flowers.But if you have a conventional veg patch or allotment, with crops grown at traditional wide spacings, try intercropping. The idea of this is to sow or plant quick

compost in the bin to feed all the hungry plants. And wait for that horrible business of 'winter' to be over with.PSTo grow pumpkins you need a sheltered, sunny position and rich, moisture-retentive soil. Sow two seeds 2.5cm deep in a 5cm pot in late

sowing Z. 'Blackcurrant Sorbet' and Z. 'Orange King'. Orange is a great colour to combine with purples, pinks and blues to add zing, or if you prefer, lime green.When I'm cutting flowers, I always make sure I have a bucket of water with me so I can put

. These 'leaf' signs will make this the optimum time.Looking at my calendar again, in period one, Sunday 13 June is marked as the moon in Cancer, so this is the best possible day in that period to plant leaf crops like spinach, chard or successional sowing

, as I was recently wondering how sowing native wildflower seed on derelict land near my home might affect local wildlife.Jan says brownfield sites have become important refuges for wildlife due to the increasing pressures on our countryside. She says