Required reading

No Nettles Required The Truth about Wildlife Gardening by Ken Thompson (Transworld Publishers 2006, £6.99). Much of it is based on gardens in Sheffield, but all of it could apply to Camberwell - urban gardens small or large, scruffy or manicured, are homes to much more wildlife than we think. (Just don't use the nasties in plastic bottles on the garden centre shelves.) Unputdownable.