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in growing bagsHarvest early potatoes, carrots and salad cropsPrune the sideshoots of gooseberry bushes back to just five leavesCut out congested raspberry canes at soil level, or those popping up in pathsFeed all crops with a liquid fertiliserSow seeds

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

Shorten sideshoots growing from the framework of espalier, fan and cordon-trained fruit trees back to about five leaves from their basePick fresh herbs for dryingPick gooseberries, currants, strawberries and other fruits as they ripenSupport heavily

. What should I do with it? Leave it to do its own thing? Pull it up? Leave it-carry on pulling-I had one of these once- it didn't survive the winter If it behaves anything like perpetual spinach (a relation) it will carry on until spring

spinach left now Cake I made other day, does that count No, that doesn't count- would put a smilie on there, but this is my first post and I don't know how that works yet!The reason I asked what we are eating fresh now, I wondered if the poor growing

'm sowing chard and spinach beet now to harvest in the winter. I had to grow some more peas & beans & have just planted them out. So fingers crossed. Also cut & come again lettuce, rocket & peas for pea shoots in seed trays. Even my established courgettes

to grow fruit and veg. We have runner, French and broad beans, spinach, chard, courgettes and some wonderful raspberries originally grown by my granny.The runner, French and broad beans were heavily infested with blackfly when I visited two weeks ago. But

staking . you can either have summer or spring varietes. Try some leeks and celery good luck and enjoy Grow different varieties of lettuce in large pots, also spinach, so you can pick young leaves for salads - sow seeds every couple of weeks throughout

, I put them outside.  Jon cob. Have a trough of perpetual spinach which has gone through the winter, never got around to composting it and thought I read somewhere it starts to grow again in Spring. It's still green leaved but the leaves look as tough

Is it finally OK to start any vegs outside??? depends on what your growing really, carrots,lettuce,spinach,parsnips will grow if the ground has warmed up to about 12 degrees. veg like onions, peas, potatoes can be put down from march but you need