Rhs beginners’ guide: french beans

Broad beans are one of the easiest crops you can grow, and now is the perfect time to get them out of the starting gates to get ahead of those spring sowings. Start now, and you can enjoy these delici

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

Helping you get your best-ever fruit and veg

Lucy explains how to make the most of the next few weeks

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

I ‘summer pruned’ my apples and pears in July and they have started to send out shoots -should I remove them? Summer pruning is somewhat tricky, especially in a summer like this. The rather broad advi