Lettuce
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CHILLI BEAN BURRITOS
These Tex-Mex burritos are delicious, filled with beans, rice and plenty of hot chilli. SERVES 6 Preparation time: 20 minutes | Cooking time: 20 minutes FILLING • 1 tbsp olive oil • 1 small onion, finely chopped • 2 cloves…
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Getting the best from your vegetables
Feed, water, harvest bumper crops. Growing vegetables in your garden is so rewarding, but only if you give them what they need while they are growing. Even if your soil is fertile, growing and harvesting vegetables takes nutrients from the…
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SPRING SALAD WITH PEAS
Spring on a plate! Enjoy this season’s best vegetables in one big salad. SERVES 4 | Preparation Time: 20 minutes • 250-300g/8-9oz mixed leaves • ½ cucumber, thinly sliced • 2-3 radishes, thinly sliced • 75-100g/3-4oz fresh peas, blanched •…
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GRILLED PESTO CHICKEN SANDWICH WITH LETTUCE & AVOCADO
These sandwiches take no time to make and are great served still warm. Preparation time: 15 minutes | Cooking time: 10 minutes MAKES 4 • 2 boneless chicken breast • 4 tbsp basil pesto • 4 buns or bagels •…
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TUNA SALAD
A colourful finely diced salad – ensuring you get a bit of everything in every bite! Eat it as it is, or use it as a sandwich filling. SERVES 4 Preparation time: 15 minutes | Cooking time: 10 minutes FOR…
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How to encourage children to eat their greens
Squire’s Garden Centres are running a great activity at May Half Term Dates: Monday 29th May – Friday 2nd June 2017 Times: 10am – 4pm Locations: All Squire’s Garden Centres (except Chertsey) www.squiresgardencentres.co.uk Activities: Plant a Fruit & Vegetable Box…
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Lettuce & Spinach Soup
by Gaby Bartai My verdict on lettuce in soup: yes, but it needs company. Lettuce on its own produces altogether too mild a flavour, but to my taste, an all-spinach soup is just too green for its own good. Half and…
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Edible Garden for Chelsea’s Great Pavilion
See the totally edible garden being produced by the Miracle-Gro Company at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show. According to Vicky Page, the company’s spokesperson, “We are packing the raised beds with an amazing variety of edible flowers, productive fruit trees…
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VIDEO: Top Tips for March
There’s so much to do this month. Check out our range of tip-top videos from Steve and Tony packed with how-to guides and advice! Sowing carrots with Steve Ott Checking forced rhubarb with Tony Flanagan Sowing lettuce with Steve Ott
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Veg plot in a bag
There is one product that has opened up the world of cultivating veg like no other and that’s the growing bag. One of the best inventions ever for gardeners has to be the growing bag and whatever size of plot…
