Want to know the secrets to handsome hanging baskets? Look no further! Firstly, when you plant up, always use a good quality compost, an add some slow release fertilizer and water retaining crystals - they'll make the baskets so much easier to care for come midsummer! You should also make sure you always plant up around the sides of the baskets, this will give more impact, quicker! Finally, through the season, keep taking off the dead flowers and you'll get more and more grow on!

May is still a perfect month for planting asparagus, seed potatoes and the new autumn maturing rhubarb Livingstone. Livingstone is the first of the ‘autumn harvesting’ varieties as it does not have summer dormancy, which traditional varieties do. Rhubarbs are perennial plants once established and will benefit from some well rotted manure every winter and will reward you for several years.