Helen grows beetroot

IT’S easy to imagine the vegetable patch is winding down at this time of year – the tomatoes are ripening, courgettes are piling up, and the first leaves are beginning to yellow. But here’s something

If you want to freeze a glut, briefly blanch broad beans in salted boiling water for 2 mins before draining and tipping into ice water to cool quickly. Will keep frozen for up to three months. When re

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

Chris Collins from Garden Organic explains how to extend the harvest with great hardy greens to sow now

Apple butter Put 5-6 chopped dessert apples in a large pan with 150ml water, 150ml apple juice, 100g light brown soft sugar and the juice of 1 lemon. Bring to the boil, then reduce to a simmer, cookin

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