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herbs to bring into a porch or grow on the window sillSow broad beans and hardy peas for early crops next yearCheck pears regularly to harvest when perfectly ripeVegetables to sow now include winter radishes, lettuce and salad leaves, spinach, spring

Chickweed, Stellaria media, is best thought of as a delicious rather than a pernicious weed. Its young leaves are packed with vitamins, so it makes a healthy addition to salads. However, it can also harbour greenfly and spider mite, so remove

and other crops to keep them growing stronglyStop cutting asparagus by the end of June to allow the ferns to formThin out heavy gooseberry crops by removing the smallest fruits, and use these for cookingMake successional sowings of salad leaves and radishes

Growing herbs from seed discs is a simple alternative for anyone who struggles with sowing small herb and salad seeds. These are filled with seeds for herbs such as basil, chives and parsley, or salads such as mixed leaves, mesclun or rocket

Hi I am still fairly new to fruit & veg growing & would appreciate some help. I sowed a couple of rows of peas about 4 weeks ago and the seedlings are now 3 - 4cms high. I noticed the other day that most of the leaves have been eaten around

as the plants start to flower.The spinach I'm growing in troughs as a salad crop, as you need to grow buckets of it for cooking and I don't have the space. Spinach is also prone to leaf miner fly, which bores holes into the leaves and lays eggs, so picking

Hello I am new to vegetable gardening but really enjoying it, even though I am sure I have made many many mistakes The spinach sown so far has been harvested for salad leaves and has started to bolt. I'm hoping to sow some to ensure that we get some

-dwarf-french-beans.aspx  I'd go with dwarf beans too but they'll need lots of watering as Dove says.  You can also try salad leaves in window boxes or tubs and carrots do well in tubs, especially the shorter varieties such as Chantenay types. HI Right dwarf beans it is  ill

knife to loosen the roots of each rosette, and as I did, I noticed how lush the leaves were.During my childhood, my Dad used to pick fresh, crisp dandelion leaves to add to salads. They had a strong, slightly bitter flavour – rich in iron if I remember

and in early spring.  Also you should sow Broadbeans Aquadulce Claudia in the autumn (I do it in Oct/Nov) and then you will have a crop from them about May time.   This article will give you lots of information about growing winter veg and salads http://www.sarahraven.com/how-to/growing