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The usual way is to prepare the soil well before planting - clearing all weeds, adding garden compost or well-rotted manure and any fertiliser. After planting, keep the onions/garlic/shallots weed free as they are shallow rooted and don't do well with compeition.If you think they need it,...

It bothers me as I still haven't got windscreen wipers for my glasses.

Maybe I was fortunate, but I got petrol this evening at the usual price, no big queue no worries.

I know what you mean about Berberis A few years ago I removed a Berberis julianae which had grown right up through our Hawthorn tree. It came with the house and I'd left it alone for years because in the winter it provided an impenetrable roost for all the local sparrows. I measured one of the...

@Ergates I once had to catch a train from Manchester to Hull with my scientists when our flight home was cancelled after a power failure at Zaventem airport. It began swimmingly with an excellent tram connection from Sale to Piccadilly and then went rapidly downhill - small train with very...

No, I don’t keep the old ones, removing them gives the new ones more space to unfurl and I prefer their fresher green. This is a sure symptom of gardening OCD . In nature they just do their own thing (but look tatty ).

Got some Jumbo Colocasia Esculenta thus year. They are the size of bowling balls

Three Admirals this morning keeping apart.

Sika Deer, Canada Goose and two incoming Greylag Geese. Poole HarbourFirst Adder of the year.

It got up to 15c with full sun. A lovely day. The chilly wind also warmed up, maybe because it was coming from the south. There were lots of big bumble bees asleep on the pampas grass fronds.