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keen vegetable gardener and he grows tomatoes and cucumbers in his greenhouse. These and runner beans are his particular passions. Over tea we've compared seed companies and their service, our favourite varieties and tips on when to harvest runner beans

of parsnips for me, as one of Paul's lovely customers, Glyn, a keen allotmenteer from Colerne, popped in with a freshly harvested bag of them from his plot. He reckons they’re the best parsnips he’s ever grown – they’re so clean, white, canker

I've been letting a few crops run to seed this year. I left a few parsnips and a couple of rows of leeks over winter to be harvested as and when I needed them, but there were far too many of them and many stayed in the ground.In spring, the leeks

be ready for harvesting.I've got three apple trees on my plot: Fiesta, James Grieve and Egremont Russet. Each variety ripens at a slightly different time, giving me a lovely succession of tasty, home-grown apples. All my trees came from the garden centre