31. Be a good neighbour – enter Reading in Bloom!

New neighbours have just bought the house next door and it was with considerable pleasure that I learned they had no cats.

32. Sharpening up blurred edges gives definition

A week of work in the garden has given it that most important characteristic – definition.

Lack of maintenance over winter tends to blur its edges. Weeds running through borders smother the shape of plants.

33. Go wild for free and delicious food

As prices of everyday items soar in the supermarkets and food riots over rice shortages become a reality, perhaps everyone should learn to forage for food.

34. Weed meet again – time to get rid of plant pests!

The sun is shining and a whole week of gardening stretches ahead of me as I write.

The weekend was devoted to making sure the urgent jobs were completed.

35. Mystery of the hole in the ground

36. Flamboyant flowers offer fab feast for floral judges

THE nights are warming and soon, within a week or two, the threat of frost will be behind us.

In the past, I have been eager to rush to the garden centre to buy bedding plants, impatient to get my summer show on display.

37. Ahoy gardeners – time to bloom

If you dig gardening then your town needs you to get down and dirty once again this year.

38. Delicate flowers power on in face of bleak winter chill

A stitch in time saves nine has never really been a policy of mine in the garden.

39. Think about colour if you want to bloom for judges

Recent weather conditions have done little to make us think about summer but by the end of this month we will all be looking for summer bedding.

40. Anemone’s a good friend when March winds blow

March is supposed to come in like a lion and go out like a lamb.