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and verbenaPlant up an edible herb display of lavender and thyme

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in the south-west. As well as feeding my young family out of our back garden, I squeeze in as many flowers as I can manage. This year I’m itching to sow the mouth-watering selection of flowers, veg, herbs and salads on offer through the Seed Club. The moment

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's a really compact marrow called 'Bush Baby' from Unwins that will be perfect for my veg beds, and those baby leaf salads and oriental vegetables look delicious in the Suffolk Herbs catalogue.Then there are the sweet peas - so many wonderful fragrant

planted to commemorate an anniversary, a herb without which your cooking would be bland or maybe just a piece of herbaceous fluff which stirs the soul? Remember: these will be the only six plants that you are allowed - you won't have access to any

herbs, lettuce, tomatoes and climbing beans, which I eat every day, just a few paces away. The most convenient way is to grow them in raised beds, which are much easier to look after. I now have a happy mix of winter salads and wallflowers growing

 about the healthy satisfaction of allotmenteering will have penetrated deep into your psyche and you will be itching to grasp a sturdy spade and start double digging. Be warned: it is an addictive hobby.It all starts with a couple of pots with herbs, then maybe some

in the same place more than once - I wasn't bothered by them again.It's interesting to note that the previous year I had planted the herb Angelica archangelica on the allotment, for no other reason that it is statuesque and very pretty. I read in a book

't regret your decision to grow your own fruit, veg and herbs.