WITH warmer, longer days we can at last get out in our gardens and get to work preparing for the summer.

If you have a pond, feed your fish a good quality fish food and check your pond equipment is running effectively. Check out Bow’s Garden & Aquatic Centre’s seasonal pond tips on the website: www. bowgardencentre.co.uk .

May is perfect for thinking about salad vegetables to be grown this year and everyone’s favourite is the tomato and you can get a large crop from just one plant.

Bow Garden Centre has many different varieties of young plants to choose from including Gardeners Delight, Sungold, Roma, Alicante and Shirley and Moneymaker. Along with tomatoes you can pick up a six-pack of vegetables to get yourself started, choose from leeks, cauliflower, cabbage or broccoli to name but a few.

With a full compliment of fertilisers, pest control and compost at great prices you will find everything you need to grow successfully.

A greenhouse is the ideal place to start any young vegetable off and the Centre offers a full range of Elite Greenhouses which are built to last and come with many useful additional features such as heat sensitive opening vents and built in staging. If you don’t have a greenhouse why not pick up a brochure or talk to a member of Bow Garden Centre’s helpful staff and they can price up one to suit your needs whether it’s a small lean to or a larger affair.

Of course you need somewhere to sit down and admire your work once you have finished doing the hard graft so pick up some new garden furniture from the extended selection. The Centre has bistro sets, patio sets, swing chairs, arbours and a whole host of other furniture all at great prices. Plus they have a new range of barbecues and accessories to compliment your new seating area.

Bow Garden & Aquatic Centre is a gardeners, pet and fish-keepers’ haven with an extensive garden centre, pet shop, gift shop, a giant koi pond and Country Coffee Shop - so it’s well worth a visit!