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Every year I eagerly anticipate the new gardeners world calendar but this year I have been very disappointed.So sad. I loved the glossy beautiful pictures of gardens, wildlife and flowers. But this year not only has the calendar gone from a pleasing

that need doing, before those little green shoots in the border suddenly crack on and need attention. It is amazing how forgiving a garden can be: if you dig foundations and make a mess now, the grass will recover and the plants will bounce back by summer

I used to see foxes all the time. Whenever I looked out of the window there was almost certainly one sniffing about in the garden or strolling nonchalantly down the street. Winter nights were alive with the unearthly yelps and screams of the males

I'm spluttering with indignation.In the dozen or so years that we've gardened here, I've boasted that we've been almost completely free of mammalian vermin: a rabbit emerged once but our two (very efficient) Tibetan terriers soon resolved

and the weeds will grow through regardless!So, if I'm ever asked for a gardening tip for a new gardener it would have to be mulch, mulch, mulch. Home-made compost costs you nothing, so make as much as you can from kitchen and garden waste as well as leaves

topiary. In the winter they provide structure and add tone; in the summer they seem like benevolent aunts standing stiffly, but attentively, above a gambolling chaos of flower and lawn.You don't need a huge stately garden to use topiary. In my garden I

Excellent idea, but i was composting this year, adding all and sundry. The problem i then had was RATS.I now only compost my garden waste.Does anyone know how to compost without our little ratty being involved? If you are adding meat fish dairy

in a kitchen. I have had a few ants in mine (no food left around ) and I dont like it. I like to think I am quite good when it comes to the wildlife in my garden but sometimes things have to be moved on. My grandchildren play on the lawn a lot, weather

, send for a kitchen garden catalogue from Dobies. This has a handy chart with sowing & planting times. Good luck! Butternut squashes are one of my favourites, good to eat especially roast and easy to grow, but I would never, ever, not grow courgettes

Afternoon As part of our house renovation we’re tackling the garden (no mean feat). The patio is pretty much complete as this is predominantly slate running out the same height as the kitchen floor. We’ve created a white block cavity perimeter wall