Sow peas for pea shoots

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

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

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

Is there anything better than popping open a pod of garden peas fresh from the plot and snacking on them while you garden? Probably not! This guide makes growing peas easier than ever! Check the optim

This variety of pak choi has extremely tasty leaves and stems, and luckily, is really easy to grow! It is versatile – perfect for use either as baby leaves, or whole heads. It is an excellent source o

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