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the station on some evenings I found myself battling through torrential rain, only to get home and find my garden was still bone dry. And there I was wishfully thinking I'd have an evening off from my summer watering routine!But back to the clover. Perhaps

they hold more compost and have a deeper root run.Large households may well accumulate more cardboard or egg boxes than they can use for raising plants, so I compost all this instead. Just tear the card up into small pieces, moisten with water and mix

of different heights and sizes then allows me to group them together into displays.March can be a dry month (apologies if it's raining relentlessly in your area), so do keep ensure your primula pots are kept well watered. Adding an occasional liquid feed won

taken down by worms to improve the soil. At this time of year, when perennial plants are putting on such a burst of new growth, I also make sure they don't go short of water. Adding a liquid feed a couple of times a year also helps.It has been

planting out, watering in plants naturally.However, I did put cloches to good use to provide extra protection from battering rain until some delicate seedlings were established. The main plants that suffered were sweetcorn, with every seedling being bent

in heavier terracotta pots instead of plastic ones to provide more stability.Like so many exotics gloriosa is not hardy, but I've never had a problem saving tubers from one year to the next. I just refrain from watering pots from about the end of October

... round shrubs, roses and flowers, along the base of the hedge, around fruit trees and bushes, and over the veg plot. Beans get a good, deep mulch of compost to help conserve soil moisture, too, but it's not just water retention that mulching is good for

over trees and soil in search of overwintering pests around the garden. Welcome them in with food and water, provide them with hedges and shrubs for shelter, and they'll reward you by helping control unwanted pests. What's a pest to you is food for them

When a letter starts "I must strongly protest at an article written by Adam Pasco…" then I do wonder what I've done wrong.Let me set the scene. You can't find much more of a bird lover than me. Just take a look at my garden, and the way I garden

and lightly teases and loosens the soil surface. Now choose a suitable grass seed and sprinkle over the whole lawn. If you want you can mix seed with some potting compost to help see where you've been. Finish by watering the area to help settle seed down