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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

Salads are a real summer joy – crisp, fresh and healthy – and growing your own has masses of advantages over buying your crops from a shop. Homegrown salads are way more delicious, fresh and nutritiou

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

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It’s not too late to get summer blooms going to spruce up your plot

Succulent summer leaves are nutritious and easy to grow