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Vitamin-rich salads
Are all salads created equal? Not when it comes to the matter of nutrition. Vicki Cooke explores vitamin-rich salads.
Vicki Cooke
Vicki has had a varied career in horticulture, from vegetable seed producer with the Heritage Seed Library to conservation manager with Plant Heritage, via the walled kitchen garden at Hampton Court Palace. Now working with the National Plant Collections, the perfect place to combine a love of plants with an interest in the diversity, history and culture associated with them. Always with a soft spot for edibles and a member of the RHS Fruit, Vegetable and Herb committee.
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What’s an easy vegetable to grow?
Grow your own courgettes this year. Vicki Cooke has some advice on how to grow and how you can avoid a courgette glut in mid-summer.
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Growing garlic in the garden
Garlic is one of the easiest vegetable crops to grow in the garden. Read our advice and tips on planting, choosing varieties and growing.
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Growing from seed
Vicki Cooke Kitchen Garden Keeper at Hampton Court Palace, offers timely advice on sowing and growing from seed.
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Where can I taste mulberries?
What’s red in tooth and paw? Vicki Cooke unearths and explores the myth and magic of mulberries
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Salad all year round
Grow salad all year round with these tips from the gardeners of yesteryear. Plant and sow now for delicious and nutritious winter ingredients.
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Umbellifer or apiaceae?
Vicki Cooke explores and unravels the beautiful flat flowerheads of the carrot or umbellifer family.
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Foxgloves for the garden
Have you ever wondered about growing foxgloves in your garden? Vicki Cooke unravels some of the myths and magic of these wonderful plants.
Grow your own
Grow peppers and chillies
It is perfectly possible to grow peppers and chillies in the UK, indoors or a hot spot outside. Vicki Cooke shares some growing advice, tips and her favourite varieties.
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Growing melons
Tips and advice on growing melons from Hampton Court’s Kitchen Garden keeper, Vicki Cooke.
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What sort of strawberries should I grow?
Are strawberries the perfect fruit? Former Kitchen Garden Keeper at Hampton Court Palace, Vicki Cooke explores the different varieties and how best to grow them.
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How can I grow crops out of season?
Vicki Cooke, former kitchen garden keeper at the Royal Hampton Court Palace, reveals some historical tricks of the trade to force plants into growth out of season.
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Are blackberries worthy garden plants?
Vicki Cooke extols the virtues of the humble blackberry.
Grow your own
What’s the buzz about gooseberries?
Vicki Cooke, former Kitchen Garden Keeper at Hampton Court Palace explores the sweet and the sharp of gooseberries.
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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
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Let us rewind, lettuce history
Vicki Cooke rewinds history and unravels the myths and magic of the humble lettuce
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