21. Cor – loads of courgettes!

My tiny vegetable patch is rejoicing in its first glut and it feels like a biblical year of plenty.

22. Raising awareness to accept skin condition

It is the condition which turned Michael Jackson’s skin white and a Coley mum would like everyone to understand more about it.

23. Good scents prevail – as borough blooms blossom

The borough council’s parks and gardening staff have been giving me great pleasure recently.

24. 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.

25. ‘Patty’s Plum’ poppy is so lovely I want to sing

Whenever I hear the name Gordon Brown the next line “texture like sun” comes unbidden into my head.

26. Yet another snail in the coffin of my aubergines

Vigilence in the vegetable plot is what is needed at the moment –  always a hard task for the weekend gardener.

27. 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.

28. 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.

29. 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.

30. Mystery of the hole in the ground