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Helping you get your best-ever fruit and veg

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

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

MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR OUTDOOR SPACE THIS MONTH WITH OUR GUIDE TO THE CHANGING SEASONS

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