Top of the crops: radish

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

THIS MONTH Beetroot

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

Black is the new black in the berry aisle, where consumers are falling in love with new, sweeter varieties, as Michael Barker discovers

KITCHEN GARDENER

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