Veg Guide
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Grow your own: Lettuce
Lettuce has to be one of the most popular vegetables to grow. It is fast maturing, the ultimate salad ingredient and can be grown in a relatively small area.
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Grow your own: Marrows & Courgettes
Courgettes and marrows have to be the first choice for beginners to veg growing. They grow quickly and produce masses of fruit without too much trouble making them real confidence boosters.
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Grow your own: Onions & Shallots
These crops both belong to the allium family, which also includes garlic, but whereas onions form one large bulb, shallots split to form several small bulbs and are generally milder and sweeter than onions.
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Grow your own: Parsnips
Parsnips are a delicious winter veg that’s not difficult to grow once it gets established but it is a crop that is best grown on a large vegetable patch or allotment.
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Grow your own: Peas
This has to be one of the favourite veg of all time; even children manage to eat a few peas when they may turn their nose up at other vegetables.
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Grow your own: Peppers
There are two types of pepper, or capsicum, to give them their proper name. There are the chilli peppers and the sweet peppers, the latter being the milder relatives
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Grow your own: Potatoes
Potatoes are one of our staple foods and a familiar veg to all. There is always a great supply of relatively cheap potatoes in our supermarkets all year round, so why grow your own?
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Grow your own: Radish
Radish is one of the easiest vegetables you can grow and one of the fastest to mature. It can be grown between slower crops such as leeks or brassicas making it useful for the small plot where space is limited.
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Grow your own: Runner beans
These must be UK gardeners’ all time favourite beans, yet they can be a little temperamental. This is often because hot weather prevents the pollination of flowers needed to produce pods, but usually a drop in temperature will get them…
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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
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: Squashes
Squashes are members of the gourd family and include pumpkins, courgettes and marrows.
