Events in March:

The RHS London Orchid Show - 15 & 16 March 2008, Westminster, London. Click here for more details

March's reader queries answered by Stephen Anderton, The Times. Click here to read

Week 1:

51 glorious garden websites

Times Online's gardening guru opens her address book to share her top pick of gardening websites

Related Internet Links

• A ten step guide for novice gardeners

• The gardening year planner - what to do, when

• Guides for vegetable growers

BACKGROUND

• A gardener's guide to healing herbs and flowers

• Fruit bushes: what to grow and how to get a good crop

• Plant it now: a beginner's guide to snowdrops

• Neil Wormald’s week: a potted guide to growing chillies

• A guide to making a great patio garden

BACKGROUND

• A year in the garden: tasks for every season

• How to start a vegetable garden

• Twenty vegetable catalogues

• Eight great vegetable gardening books

BACKGROUND

• Growing kinds of chilli. . .

• Go ahead, pack it in

• Seeds of change

• Dolce vita on a plate

• Salad days that last forever

BACKGROUND

• Let’s not lose the plots

• A plot on the land

• Seeds of change

• There's life in the allotment

• One potato, two potato...

What to do this week:

- Start pruning bush roses

- The seeds of hardy annuals, such as Limnanthes douglasii (poached egg flower) can be sown directly in garden borders now

- To prevent slug damage, surround the emerging shoots of hostas with circles of coarse grit nUse a half-moon edger to redefine any damaged lawn edges

- Sow the seeds of aubergines and leave them to germinate in a heated propagator.

(Neil Wormald, Sunday Times)

Weekend tips:

- If you put spent pots of narcissi into the garden after flowering, set them with the top of the bulbs four inches down, not on the surface as they were set in the pots. 'Paper Whites' need the hottest sunny border you can find, not grass. Don't feel you have to plant by the potful: tease the roots apart and plant singly if you prefer

Explore Gardens

• Hampton Court Palace Flower Show

• Chelsea Flower Show

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