With a little care and attention you can keep all your herbs, fruit and vegetables at the peak of perfection, Martyn Cox offers some timely advice
salads
What edible plants can I grow in containers?
Debi Holland suggests Five Fab edibles for containers.
Can I grow my own salad?
Follow Geoff Stebbings advice and grow your own salads this season
Grow Your Own Salad – Growing for one
You don’t have to have a big family to feed, to grow your own food, Geoff Hodge explains how to grow your own for one.
Extending the grow-your-own season
Early September is the time to crack on with harvesting tomatoes, courgettes, peppers and other tender vegetables & fruit that you’ve been growing outside.
Grow corn salad
As the seasons start to turn and the garden harvest wanes a little, plan ahead and sow some corn salad, it’s undemanding and a great choice.
What is companion planting?
Some plants offer additional benefits when grown in close proximity with others. Jean Vernon explores
Grow Your Own
Summer advice to get the best from your home-grown fruit, vegetables and herbs
Getting started with fruit and veg
Martyn Cox offers some timely advice on growing fruit and vegetables in your summer garden.
Vitamin-rich salads
Are all salads created equal? Not when it comes to the matter of nutrition. Vicki Cooke explores vitamin-rich salads.
How can I grow crops out of season?
Vicki Cooke, kitchen garden keeper at the Royal Hampton Court Palace, reveals some historical tricks of the trade to force plants into growth out of season
Sour power with sorrel
Add a whole new dimension to your menus with sorrel. Keeper of the Royal Kitchen Garden at Hampton Court, Vicki Cooke explains
Let us rewind, lettuce history
Vicki Cooke rewinds history and unravels the myths and magic of the humble lettuce
Spring beauty in the deep midwinter
Plant historian Vicki Cooke unravels the origins of a great garden import – winter purslane; Otherwise known as spring beauty
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