Preparing to pickle

Pretty and productive, buy ready-grown plants to speed up harvests

It’s time to sow chicory seed for plants to force and eat in winter. Witloof chicory sown now and thinned to 30cm apart will form plants that can be dug up to force the roots from October. Sow the see

GROWING your own salad crops is a low-effort, small-space activity that anyone can enjoy. Whether you start them from seed or buy young plants, they can be grown in containers of all sizes, and are we

Helping you get your best-ever fruit and veg

Helping you get your best-ever fruit and veg

I am, generally, indiscriminate in my enthusiasm for vegetables. But not when it comes to potatoes. I don’t cook them often, so I never bothered growing them in my veg patch. They take up too much spa