KITCHEN GARDENER

What makes pumpkins quite so satisfying to grow? Well, quite apart from the fact they’ll make your house very popular on Halloween, they’re also an underrated ingredient in the kitchen and a spectacul

Broad beans: Start these seeds now and in a few months time you will be able to enjoy an early harvest. Cauliflowers: Sow early summer types now and place under a cold frame to offer them some protect

Nothing beats home-grown crops for flavour, but if a kitchen garden with its regimented rows of fruit and vegetables doesn’t appeal, then consider creating a pretty potager

Feeding the soil and carefully selecting your crops will help make your veg garden greener

Although the garden may hold less appeal for some when rain is lashing the windows and temperatures are down in single figures than in those hopeful, sun-warmed days of spring, there is a lot to be sa