
What’s in Amateur Gardening 28 April
Free seeds worth £2.69
Jobs for this week
Lawn advice for spring
Four things you must do now to get your lawn healthy
Sowing seeds outside
It’s time to sow hardy and half-hardy annuals
Six of the best to sow
Ruth Hayes offers her top three hardy and half-hardy annuals
Tidy your woody herbs
Spruce them up before spring growth, says Ruth Hayes
Free seeds: wildflower ox-eye daisies
Great sowing tips plus lots of events to go and see
When will spring properly arrive?
How wayward weather has delayed certain tasks
Great garden ideas
Pick of the very best: courgettes
The best-eating and most disease-resistant revealed
Make room for sunflowers
13 great varieties for beds and containers
You don’t need a rockery for alpines
Don’t be restrained by convention – try containers!
Growing for cut flowers
How to plan your cutting garden effectively
Get the look
A Herefordshire garden with an amazing river view
Gardening wisdom
Peter Seabrook
How mesh sleeves can save your crop from fruit flies
Bob Flowerdew
Why you must grow your own sweetcorn!
Val Bourne’s garden wildlife
How beetles play an important role in your garden
Lucy Chamberlain’s fruit and veg
Sowing French beans and melons, plus pulling rhubarb
Your questions answered
Distressed camellia, nettle tea, bugs on a spruce tree
Anne’s masterclass
How to grow cut flowers for a wedding
Gardener’s miscellany
Lots of interesting facts about weeds plus games and puzzles
How to grow a bluebell creeper
Anne Swithinbank’s tips for this half-hardy climber
Your letters
Organic slug deterrent, the slow start to spring, mining bees
Toby Buckland
Being forgetful can be a benefit when you’re a gardener!
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Two each of five examples, plus a pair of snips