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My lawn is bone dry. I keep putting off watering it because it's autumn for goodness sake and it should rain soon. It's looking a bit brown, but I know it will recover fine with the first precipitation. The clouds, however, tenaciously hang

I am not to have any plants yet in my garden. While a thick layer of snow can insulate plants from extremely low temperatures, its weight can cause branches to break. Then frozen ground prevents roots from taking up water, and plants can die from

, where birds such as sparrows can hunt for caterpillars and garden pests. A clean bird bath provides them with water to drink and clean their feathers (which enables them to insulate themselves against the cold).There’s nothing like that in my garden

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

them in a bin with some water in the hope that they will drown.In spite of all this sweeping I know that soon there will be baby ash seedlings popping up all over the garden. They are fine if you get them early enough but they don’t half grow fast when

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

and scabious, against a backdrop of a green-roofed garden office and serene water pools.I also liked the SKYShades Garden, designed by Marney Hall. Her garden depicted a range of wildlife habitats, including hedgerow and woodland planting schemes

- David's were all eaten by slugs, while Tamsin's disappeared overnight (probably also eaten by slugs). Despite all the attention I lavished on mine, including extra watering and a weekly nettle feed, just two of the six made it above 2m (2.24m and 2.35m

as the others. It has thick skin, but tastes delicious.The secret to growing pumpkins is to start them in a deep hole with lots of organic matter (it is good to grow them directly on a compost heap, for example). They need lots of water. Ours also need