Magically delivering on all of the components that make a great garden and doing it better than any of us in the process.

The easiest way to do this is to return to a method that our parents and grandparents always used for any hardy seeds, which is to make a seed bed. Discover all different types of flowering plants explaining how to design with them, combine, plant, and care for them Although there are over 30 species of slug in the UK, there are 4 main garden ones and the biggest do not necessarily do the most damage. What you see is actually a tiny percentage of the population and slug activity and densities of over 250,000 per acre are common.

We should do everything we can to reduce the amount of plastic in our gardens. The first stage in that process is to reuse any plastic seed trays and pots that you have - and to look after them so I can continue to use them for as long as possible and not replace them.

There seems to be the constant reassuring message of “don’t worry, just do” and somehow you’ll get to where you want to be. And it works, so we can all share a bit of the Monty magic. A sign of someone who has truly mastered his craft. One word of caution. The aim is to grow strong, healthy individual plants so if you buy a pot with lots of seedlings I think it better to divide each pot into two or three. Then plant these sections at the base of each support so they have less competition and you should end up with more flowers. My Dream Farm, Channel 4, review". The Daily Telegraph. London. 22 January 2010 . Retrieved 13 May 2010. Lettuce needs cool temperatures to germinate, and may become dormant if the soil is above 20 degrees. They like a rich soil with good drainage.Between 2008 and 2016 Don was President of the Soil Association. [52] He is currently a patron of Bees for Development Trust [53] and the Pope's Grotto Preservation Trust. [54] In July 2006 he appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, choosing an eclectic mix of pop and classical records; the Beatles' " A Hard Day's Night" was his favourite disc, his book choice was Collected Poems by Henry Vaughan and his luxury item the painting Hendrikje Bathing by Rembrandt. [79] I rather naively hadn’t realized how organic a gardener Monty Don is – because the BBC must restrain some of this on Gardener’s World. This book though, Monty unleashed, has forever changed my mindset on the subject and I will always strive to be completely organic as a result. I wish I had read this sooner. This is a very simple job but one which is often overlooked. To extend the rhododendron and Azalea season and ensure that the plant does not waste its energies into seed production, dead head as many faded flowers as you can. This is particularly relevant to the large-flowered varieties.