Homegrown broad beans are delicious and tender, and appear as one of the first crops of the year. They’re easy to grow from seed, yielding green pods of green or white beans that can be used in salads

Ingredients (Makes 16 squares) ◆ 300g white chocolate, broken into pieces ◆ 75g butter ◆ 3 eggs ◆ 175g caster sugar ◆ 175g self-raising flour ◆ 175g shelled hazelnuts, roughly chopped ◆ 5ml vanilla es

A ubergines belong to the nightshade plant family and grow in a manner much like tomatoes, hanging from tall vines. As well as the classic purple variety, you can find lavender, jade green, orange and

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

Every day we collectively bin around a million bananas, 360,000 oranges and 33,000 apples, helping to make fruit the fifth biggest contributor to home food waste, according to the campaigning waste ch

If you grow your own veg or have a friend with an allotment, you may find yourself with a marrow. A marrow is a cucurbit, which means that it’s from the same family as melons, cucumbers and squash – j