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Geoff Stonebanks shares his favourite recipes that his visitors just love, including spinach and pine nut muffins and lime and polenta cake.

Create a truly scrumptious side dish to your festive feast, using red cabbage. Even the most reluctant cabbage fans will love this recipe.

Leiths Cookery writer Max Clark shares her love of apples with a tasty recipe for spiced, bittersweet apple, pear and damson chutney.

Have you got a glut of greenhouse cucumbers or even courgettes? Try this recipe and transform your harvest into a sweet, tangy and delicious pickle

This easy recipe for sweet chilli tomato tarte tatin is a great way to use up a glut of tomatoes.

Courgette flowers are edible and delicious. Make them the centre piece of your summer lunch menu with this recipe from cookery writer Max Clark.

Infuse your ice cream mix with the heady scents of scented pelargoniums for a heavenly flavour.

The hedgerows are bursting with elderflower and the garden is rich in fruit ripening in abundance. You can preserve the taste of summer right now, using fresh ingredients from your garden.

Preserve the fragrance of summer with this delicious recipe for rose petal jam. It captures the very essence of roses and lifts the spirits in winter.

Try this recipe for rhubarb crumble and custard cake from Holly Farrell’s book Grow Your Own Cake.

Apples are starting to ripen in the orchards and gardens, so make the most of your apple harvest with this easy to make tarte tatin recipe from Lubera.

Make the most of your garden pears with this delicious recipe for pear caramel from Holly Farrell’s new book, The Jam Maker’s Garden.

If you’ve got lots of home grown onions hanging in the shed, here’s a great recipe to make the most of them from Amanda Davies

Summer cordials are all the rage for pepping up your G n T or assuaging a summer thirst. Experiment with this basic herb cordial recipe and make it yours

This recipe for pea cheesecake is a delicious light lunch or summer starter, and uses everything but the pod itself from the pea plant.

Here’s a recipe for a delicious dessert: rose and rhubarb knickerbocker glory; a.k.a rose and rhubarb ice cream sundae. It’s an easy-to-make pudding!

Gather some wild blackberries and create these delicious homemade muffins with this recipe from Amanda Davies

Try this tasty vegetarian or vegan pasta dish using summer raised aubergines and butternut squash with chickpea pasta from RootOneFood

Savour the flavour of homegrown carrots with this tasty seasonal recipe that’s also dairy free.

Make this tasty recipe for nasturtium pesto using the leaves of nasturtiums.