Free seeds! give next year’s seed tin a boost with these delicious and versatile crops

A wonderful cool-weather crop, this variety of chicory is both eye-catching and delicious! The rounded red heads of leaves have a wonderfully crisp texture with the classic slightly bitter flavour. A

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

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

Helping you get your best-ever fruit and veg

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