Fruit & veg

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

Here at GBF, we’ve long championed the importance of using good quality produce in your cooking. After all, how can you expect to create something delicious if you’re not using the very best ingredien

✔ Use any spare growing space for successional sowings of fast-growing radishes. I like ‘Rainbow Mix’, as you get a lucky-dip surprise when harvesting them for salads or roasting as a BBQ side dish. ✔

The harvests are now coming in thick and fast. A quick check of last year’s records show that we gathered 150 per cent more in July than June; a significant contribution being greengages on the allotm

Summer is sailing in, so make sure you sit back and appreciate the beauty of nature (and your hard work) in your garden. If you have flowering plants and are not using pesticides, you should notice an