from Barnsdale with Geoff Hamilton and John Kelly
Temperature is the key to this week's most important jobs. Herbaceous plants need feeding and mulching now that the soil is warming up, hardy annuals can be sown and roses pruned.
Howard Rice extols the virtues of calabrese and courgettes in assessing the best value for money in the veg plot.
Production assistant JEAN LAUGHTON Producer JOHN KENYON BBC Pebble Mill