This is the best time of year to plant trees and shrubs and to remove any straggly bushes and replace them with hardier varieties. Now that the weather is cooler, redesign your garden-put in a barbecue area or a sandpit

With affordable housing being out of reach for the working poor this might be one solution. Building a house from disused building materials makes sense for the wallet, environment and gives people real ownership. This would have been better solution

May is the month that sorts the gardeners out, and the month that heralds the completion of one of nature's cycles; a time when autumn leaves crunch underfoot. Don't burn off the leaves-this leads to major air pollution problems around