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ground without forking too badly. Also, straight into the ground go beetroot, spinach and spring onions.To look at my veg garden you'd think I have a rebellious streak. I spent most of last winter digging up my straight 4’x10’ raised beds, in favour

for keeping them out. I am growing broccoli, peas, sprouts, carrots & lettuce - they are all in pots of varying sizes and so far they are all healthy with not a slug in sight - though I have put copper tape round the pots to deter them. Heligan Gardens

a go. My wife roasts parsnips in honey and maple syrup. My vocabulary is not of a high enough degree to enable me to express the amazing flavour This is the first time that i am going to grow parsnips.I thought that it would be easy bit it is not

, but I'm going to have a go at growing my own veg. My question is I want to give the soil a boost what should I dig with it, to give it & the veg I want to grow a kick start? Hi Jean, you can improve your soil for growing vegetables by adding compost

. In the first veg bed, I chitted some potatoes and now I have green leaves above the ground (all very exciting). In the other bed, I have Cougettes, which look like they have died. They were growing lovely on my window sill. Also added Carrot, spring Onion

traditional plants. I always grow Shirley Tomatoes and Gardeners Delight-you can always depend on them for taste and results. This year tried 2 new varieies-yellow pear shape, very disappointing, and Matina which I will definitely be growing again next year

to slugs. I have had made four sowings of beetroot and spinach and no luck. Runner beans sown in cold frame, were planted out, gale force winds struck and what was left was finished off by slugs. Onions have gone to seed, whilst my rhubarb is growing like

Sorrel is lovely crop to grow in shade, even dry shade. In my garden it grows under a clematis montana which grows under an ornamental cherry. It requires no real attention and produces tangy, lemony, tender, heart shaped salad leaves

!) but this is the 1st year I've grown any veg, everything was a bit late going in because of when we moved. We're on caly and we've had the same problem with the slugs and they wiped out my beetroot so I replanted and they are doing ok this time. I do confess

Hi I have just moved to Shetland from the Midlands, I have brought my plants from my old garden to see if they will live ...(you know the old 50-50 chance live or die) but was wondering if anyone know what plants will grow well up here, I'm also