Martyn Cox helps you start growing your own fruit, herbs and vegetables in your own garden, with lots of timely tips and advice.
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What can I grow to eat right now?
Jean Vernon suggests a few fast and fresh things to grow now for some extra ingredients for your menus
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.
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.
Are blackberries worthy garden plants?
Vicki Cooke extols the virtues of the humble blackberry.
What’s the buzz about gooseberries?
Vicki Cooke, former Kitchen Garden Keeper at Hampton Court Palace explores the sweet and the sharp of gooseberries.
Growing pumpkins
If you fancy growing pumpkins for autumn then now is the time to get growing! Vicki Cooke, former Kitchen Garden Keeper at Hampton Court Palace, has some tips to get started.
Kales, Collards and Coleworts
Former Hampton Court Palace Royal kitchen garden keeper, Vicki Cooke explores the weird and wonderful world of easy to grow kale.
Grow currants in your garden
Advice and top tips on growing blackcurrants, redcurrants, whitecurrants and gooseberries from Vicki Cooke.
Artichokes; a historical delicacy
Former Royal Kitchen Garden keeper Vicki Cooke unravels the historical uses of globe artichokes.
Easy strawberries
If you only grow one fruit this year make it the strawberry. It’s one of the easiest crops to grow and so rewarding too.
