Lettuce

PREPARATION TIME 15 minutes COOKING TIME 10 minutes SERVES 2 YOU WILL NEED ✔ 2 Clarence Court hen eggs ✔ 2 tbsp sesame seeds ✔ handful cherry tomatoes ✔ 2 spring onions ✔ 1 ripe avocado ✔ ½ lime, zest

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

Freshen up mealtimes with our filling, but lighter mains

The UK is far from self-sufficient in lettuce, but still produces good volumes of a crop that plays a vital role in the nation’s food landscape, writes Michael Barker

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