81. Wet weather blues – slugs scooting like skaterboys

The bank holiday monsoon put paid to most of my gardening plans including the annual trip up the ladder to prune the ceanothus.

82. Answer to beat the late frosts – a fabric fleece

The official start of summer is just around the corner, which means that it is nearly time to start planting out all your tender annuals.

I say nearly because it is always a tricky business deciding exactly when to risk putting your little plants out in the big wide world.

83. 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.

84. Beware the moth which worms its way into apples

The warmer days and nights will mean that the insect population will start to explode in our gardens over the next few weeks.

Most of them do us no harm at all and some, like the bees, are essential for the pollination of fruit and flowers.

85. 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.

86. Mystery of the hole in the ground

87. Productive runner beans

Now that the warm weather has arrived in earnest it really is time to get your runner beans sown.

Runner beans have always been a favourite with vegetable gardeners and understandably so.

88. 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.

89. Beer we go again – it’s time to get slugs sozzled

We are getting towards the end of spring and the start of summertime, which means that it is almost time to plant out all those delicate little seedlings which have been nurtured on window-sills all around town.

Before they can go out there are a few important jobs to be done.

90. It’s euonymus – suburban plants are all the rage

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