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Your Vegetable and Flower Garden in May	Thursday, April 30, 2009
It's here at last, well almost ! The weather is noticeably warmer and the days so much longer (great for getting in early gardening mode!) But there's no doubt that the combination of warmth and rain makes not only your garden vegetable and ornamental plants, but also your weeds, grow at a phenomenal rate so there is plenty to do. read more >>

Ants in the Garden, control or not?	Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Ants, ants, ants....they seem to have arrived in my garden earlier than ever before. Ants may not cause a lot of harm to your garden plants, but they're certainly irritating if you like to sit out in your garden, or simply prefer not to be bitten when you're trying to do a spot of weeding or planting. read more >>

Grow Your Own Vegetables	Monday, April 27, 2009
Growing your own vegetables really is the new thing to do. Normally I'm one to shun new trends or fashions, but not this. Its fantastic. read more >>

Blind or poor flowering daffodils

Thursday, April 02, 2009

If you've been disappointed with the performance of your daffodils, if they've had plenty of foliage but few flowers, they're probably suffering from 'Blindness'. It is not infectious so there's no need to panic, it is simply that the bulbs have run out of steam and don't have enough energy to produce a full compliment of petals. The result ? No flower heads, or empty, papery flower heads.

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Things to do in April	Wednesday, April 01, 2009
From mid-spring onwards the colours in the garden start to hot up. Who can't help but enjoy the warmer colour as the first of those silken petalled tulips show off bold, almost brazen blooms? read more >>

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> Harvesting garlic

This must be the first year that I've harvested a crop of garlic with no traces of rust: not a pustule in sight.

> Growing courgettes

I adore home-grown courgettes. They lack that slightly bitter taste and spongy texture you can get with supermarket specimens.

> Pests and problems

This year we held our annual Gardeners' Question Time Garden Party at our GQT garden at Sparsholt College near Winchester, Hampshire.

> Gardeners’ Question Time

Well, here I sit in the backstage area of the main theatre at BBC Gardeners' World Live [...] Earlier we recorded the first of several mini Gardeners' Question Time programmes.

Pippa’s gardening news

Your Vegetable and Flower Garden in May

Ants in the Garden, control or not?

Grow Your Own Vegetables

Blind or poor flowering daffodils

Things to do in April

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