Martyn Cox offers some timely advice on growing fruit and vegetables in your summer garden.
Vegetables
Vitamin-rich salads
Are all salads created equal? Not when it comes to the matter of nutrition. Vicki Cooke explores vitamin-rich salads.
How to Grow Your Own Food
Martyn Cox helps you start growing your own fruit, herbs and vegetables in your own garden, with lots of timely tips and advice
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.
How can you use home grown onions?
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
Funky tomatoes
Here’s a sneak preview of some sumptuous, funky tomatoes that will be on show at the 2019 RHS Hampton Court Flower Show
Ideas to take home from RHS Chelsea 2019
There are so many inspirational gems at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show, many are unachievable in most gardens, but here are five ideas from this year’s show to take home for your plot
Spicy Aubergine and Roast Butternut Squash Penne
Try this tasty vegetarian or vegan pasta dish using summer raised aubergines and butternut squash with chickpea pasta from RootOneFood
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
Celebrate Year of the Pepper 2018
Join in the celebrations and grow your own chillies and peppers and celebrate the year of the pepper.
Growing pumpkins
If you fancy growing pumpkins for autumn then now is the time to get growing! Vicki Cooke from Hampton Court Palace Kitchen Garden 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.
Supergreen Vegan Kale Pesto and Roast Mushrooms
Gluten free recipe using garden kale and RootOne pasta
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
Greenhouse Growing
Pippa Greenwood explains the wonders of having a greenhouse and shares some timely tips and advice
Artichokes; a historical delicacy
Former Royal Kitchen Garden keeper Vicki Cooke unravels the historical uses of globe artichokes.
Grow chillies from seed
If chillies are your guilty pleasure, February is the right time to get them started when growing from seed.
Vegetable growing tips
Pippa Greenwood offers some timely advice on growing your own veg, including choosing the right site, varieties and successional sowing.
Giant pumpkin fed with Flower Power
Joe Adkins’ Flower Power fed pumpkin put on 50lbs a day and scooped first prize in a pumpkin-growing competition in America.
Grow your own chillies
Sarah Wain from West Dean Gardens shares her secrets and tips to get the best from your chillies.
Grow courgettes and squash
If you want amazingly speedy (and usually pretty easy) returns from your veg plot, make sure you grow some courgettes and a squash or two.
Grow your own veg this year
Grow your own vegetables this year. Pippa Greenwood has some timely advice for growing potatoes, onions and sowing seed.
Growing demand for smaller allotments
Smaller allotments suitable for people who want to dip their toe into grow your own are becoming available, according to a new survey.
Growing tomatoes
Tomatoes are one of our most familiar fruits and it is hard to imagine European cuisine without it. Vicki Cooke explores the history of the tomato as well as her top growing tips.
Ideas to take home from Chelsea
Not everyone can or wants to go to RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Simply spend a little while watching the show coverage on television, online and social media.
Five easy vegetables
Growing your own vegetables in the garden is easy. Graham Rice chooses five easy veg to grow including courgette, onion, chard, lettuce & radish.
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