Salad Guide

  • Grow your own: Salad Leaves

    Grow your own: Salad Leaves

    The popularity of pillow-packs of salad leaves in supermarkets has helped to fuel the popularity of grow-your-own salad crops.

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  • Grow your own: Spinach

    Grow your own: Spinach

    Spinach is a crop is not hugely popular as a cooked vegetable but the young leaves are used more in salads now.

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  • Grow your own: Sweetcorn

    Grow your own: Sweetcorn

    There is nothing more delightful on a warm summer’s evening than eating barbecued home-grown sweetcorn; the juices and melted butter dribbling down your chin. This crop is simple to grow and a great one to involve children in. You’ll have…

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  • Grow your own: Swiss Chard

    Grow your own: Swiss Chard

    Swiss Chard is worth growing just for its decorative leaves and stems. A clump could be grown in the flower border and not look out of place. The stems and the leaves can be eaten with the leaves making a…

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  • Grow your own: Tomatoes

    Grow your own: Tomatoes

    Tomatoes are a popular greenhouse crop can also be grown outside on the patio or plot or even in a hanging basket if you get the right variety.

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  • Sowing Planner

    Sowing Planner

    Download our handy month-by-month sowing and harvesting planner.

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