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Nobody could have predicted how 2020 would unfold, the Covid-19 virus throwing the world into a state of flux and leaving us feeling like the rug has been pulled from underneath us.
With all the terrible weather we had towards the end of 2019 you would be forgiven for not venturing out past your back door into the garden.
If you were organised and managed to get out in the garden in early autumn for a winter tidy up, then the garden over the winter months can pretty much look after itself.
The purpose of a storage shed is to keep those regularly used items close at hand, whilst keeping rarely used items less accessible but neat and tidy. Storing your potting compost at the back of your shed, behind the wheelbarrow and the lawn mower, may seem to be a good idea at the time, but as you move everything out of the way for the third time in a week, you can soon see the sense of better-thought out system.
Red spider mite is the scourge of many gardeners. This species of tiny plant-feeding arachnid often makes it presence felt in greenhouses, hence its popular alternative name of “glasshouse mite”.