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.Radish 'Scarlet Globe' or 'French Breakfast'Miners' lettuce is so easy to grow it has naturalised in some areas of the UK. It provides a steady salad crop from October until March, and tastes similar to spinach.Miners' lettuce/winter purslaneOriental salad leaf

them in the past. Sonia: almost certainly beastly pigeons. Sonia, grow cut and come again lettuce etc on your windowsills - much safer and so convenient. Replace the ones you lost with spinach seed. Young spinach leaves are great in salad

into the ground where they are to grow. This is vital for root crops, which don’t like disturbance, but good for peas, beans, chard and fast- growing green crops, including spinach and lettuce.Direct sowPrepare a small patch of weed-free soil especially well

garden needn't have fewer plants or less variety than a large garden, but it's important to avoid growing large plants and shrubs, which can exclude light from the garden and compete with smaller plants for water and nutrients. Here, Monty Don and James

rightly - and while not unpleasant, they were certainly an acquired taste.Dandelions grow bigger, with longer leaves, in wild areas than they do in lawns, where mowing keeps them flat and close to soil level. Apparently, the French often eat them as a

growing which I will make jam also as well as lots of fruit puddings. Hello, how can I keep slugs off my spinach, I have a small patch of spinach growing in my garden, I have tried pellets but have not been lucky, what else can I do? Any help appreciated I

Growing vegetables from seed can make a limited budget go a long way. Some crops, such as maincrop potatoes and onions are fairly cheap to buy in shops, so growing your own might not save you a lot of money. But runner bean, cherry tomato

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

I have got two small pots of mint and a pot the rosemary and a bay tree. I am going to have a go at growing Coriander, never grown it before. Couldn't live without my herbs, if nothing else the smell of them is just wonderful. I'm trying

Success and Failures  - looking through this forum there are obvious signs that forkers have there favourite plants / planting scheme's etc for a variation of reasons i suppose ........ what would you describe - THE GARDENER as a growing success