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time to swell. This same pathogen attacks leeks, chives, and sometimes onions. The undersides of my garlic foliage became speckled with yellow patches that burst into orange rust pustules, resulting in a poor crop that simply wouldn't store through

liquid feed if leaves start to yellow.AdamIf you don't want to sow seeds in February, you could wait until the weather warms up in April and sow pots in a coldframe for slightly later-flowering plantsMore on growing climbersGrow morning glory in a

.We feed the plants with a little diluted comfrey solution during the growing season, and top-dress them with fresh compost (and gravel) in autumn. To prevent disease, we remove yellowing leaves as soon as we see them, and to promote further flowering we

I don’t like waste, so digging dandelions from the lawn last week got me thinking about the value of weeds. Dandelions are hardly the master of disguise, revealing their position in the lawn with brilliant yellow flowers. I used a long-bladed, old

last year the female blue tit brought three lemon-yellow babies into the garden and taught them to use my feeders. I felt like a proud mum.I’ve been looking out for them for the last week, but the first sign of activity was yesterday, when I saw a lone

of it with the hover-mower. It was only a young one, perhaps 4 or 5cm body length, and beautifully marked with black stipples across its mustard yellow body. We followed its determined, if understandably rather frantic, leaps the length of the garden, before it finally

', 'Pikant', 'Hative de Niort', 'Jermor', 'Red Sun' (as the name suggests, a lovely colour to chop and add raw to salsa and salads) and 'Yellow Moon'.Apart from 'Hative de Niort', they all had excellent keeping qualities, but my favourite shallot in looks

favourites:"Yellow Champagne' is a lovely variety, along with 'Golden Drop', he says. "They are both quite sweet"."'Red Champagne' has an attractive colour and 'Langley Gage' is reckoned to have one of the best flavours." Prune gooseberries early in the year

cottage, where a mix of flowers and foliage veer towards the sultry end of the spectrum - orange, red, warm yellow and lots of bronze foliage to help the whole picture seethe and simmer. The huge, blatant flowers of the poppy always get the season off to a

, this spreading plant features clumps of strappy leaves alongside sprays of trumpet flowers in shades of red, yellow and orange.My top plants for extending colourCrocosmiaThis plant is ideal for the no-fuss gardener. The large, long-lasting flowers in pinks