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they grow larger I split them in half and remove their hard black seeds. Achocha doesn't have a very distinctive flavour but does add a satisfying crunch to Thai and Chinese dishes. I cook it lightly, in the same wayI do pak choi or other oriental greens. It

. The photograph featured here was taken last summer during my visit to the Mr Fothergill’s trial ground, and show mizuna, pak choi and other salad leaves.Salad leaves are some of the easiest crops to grow from seed in pots: just fill a pot with compost, sprinkle

. Among my favourites are mizuna, pak choi, beetroot, spinach, coriander, and a host of others. I've even been enjoying some rat-tail radish, eating the small seed pods that taste exactly like, well, radish.Fitting fruit into a small garden is always

-up last Friday after finding a promising crop of pak-choi in her greenhouse was flattened by frost. How disappointing. Sometimes a few layers of fleece thrown over pots and crops in the greenhouse is enough to keep off a few degrees of frost