The Vegetable Plot – July
“A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.” Laurie Colwin Watering the...
Vegetable Plot
The Vegetable Plot – April
The old sow and sow April is a cornucopia of what you can sow, grow...
The Vegetable Plot – December
Feast on your Christmas veggies The keen vegetable gardener should be enjoying an abundance of...
The Vegetable Plot – November
Dig that! An old gardener (he was in his nineties) interviewed in a well-known TV...
The Vegetable Plot – September
The big freeze in September You will be lifting your potatoes and onions now, leaving...
The Vegetable Plot – July
If you’ve got the thyme… There’s nothing more satisfying or mouth-watering than harvesting home-grown veg...
The Vegetable Plot – June
And sow on It’s time for harvesting lettuce and other salads, radish and early potatoes....
The Vegetable Plot – May
Sow by now It’s time to reap the rewards of your earlier sowings and harvest...
The Vegetable Plot – April
Sow here we go Succession sowing will see you in vegetables through to autumn and...
The Vegetable Plot – March
The old sow and sow Maincrop onions sown in drills with plenty of farmyard manure....
The Vegetable Plot – February
More fruit of your labours Mostly in the Gardener’s Journal we talk about the veg...
The Vegetable Plot – January
Brassy brassicas and lush lettuce Many vegetables at this time of the year come from...
The Vegetable Plot – November
You might be relieved to know if your soil is light, sandy loam, it’s best...
The Vegetable Plot – October
Jack Frost is nipping at your nose Vegetable like parsnips and celeriac actually benefit from...
The Vegetable Plot – September
“To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget...
The Vegetable Plot – August
Cut-and-come-again August is a month for both harvesting and sowing on the vegetable plot. Crop...
The Vegetable Plot – July
Spilling the beans It’s easy to think of July as month when you don’t do...
The Vegetable Plot – May
And sow on Succession sowing brings you a plentiful and regular supply of fresh vegetables...
The Vegetable Plot -October
The plot thickens Beans and peas, carrots, turnips, beetroot, they are all there for the...
Beetroot
Broccoli
brussels sprouts
carrots
lettuce
Peas
petit pois
potatoes
September
Spinach
spinach beet
sweetcorn
Vegetable Plot
The Vegetable Plot – September
The big freeze We easily forget we can freeze our home-grown vegetables and rightfully claim...