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to do on the plot it's tricky to know where to start. At the moment I've got a bit of a routine: I do a quick whizz round, snapping the flower buds off my onions, harvesting courgettes and checking the brassicas for signs of cabbage white butterfly eggs

Monty Don explains the best methods of harvesting fruit from cucumber plants, with tips on recognising and removing male flowers.summerMore advice on growing fruit and vegMonty's video demonstration of how to harvest carrotsSowing beetroot seeds

I have heard that you can leave garlic in the ground too long. What is the correct time, and how do I know when to harvest for best results. It's great to see the planting and harvesting of garlic but I never know how you tell when they are ready

Can I be both? But definitely lean towards the harvester. Some of my crops are meagre and just get eaten there and then - strawbs and rasps etc. But I am a new allotmenteer and next year I am sure I'll 'suffer' the gluts and need to get a bigger

Monty Don demonstrates the most effective method for harvesting carrots, with advice on companion planting and deterring carrot root fly.summerMore advice on growing carrotsRead Pippa Greenwood's blog on growing root vegetablesGrowing carrots in a

long and it was sort green in colour,and she cried,we went to hospital and was there hours....boring... My established early strawberries have provided an amazingly large & tasty harvest - the hot dry spring brought on an early crop. I thought

I really should practice what I preach. What with one thing or another, I haven't harvested my broad beans as regularly as I should have. I blame Paul. It was his job to pick the beans on our last visit to the plot; he obviously harvested

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

certainly never knew you could harvest part of a cucumber and leave the rest on the plant - great idea - thanks I am growing cucumbers for the first time and I've been told that I should ensure the mail pollinates the female - even hand pollinating

away for three days back in July when it was hot and some of the stems died so I cut them back. The problem is, I don't know when to harvest them! They don't look like they're ever going to flower which I understand is the usual sign and they