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Lettuces and other leaves (wild rocket, mizuna, mustard leaves etc) are quick growing and can be ready to harvest in as little as 3 weeks. You can let them grow…

The great thing about leeks is that you get a nice long harvesting period. You can dig them up all through autumn and winter. They are nice and easy to…

There’s nothing better than tasting a home-grown freshly picked cucumber! Cucumbers are a very good salad vegetable to grow, and often give you a surprisingly good crop.

Great for growing with children, pumpkins are unbelievably well behaved and require minimal effort. Winter Squash are very easy to grow and require hardly any effort as well. You pop…

Courgette and Summer Squash are unbelievably easy to grow and require minimal effort. You pop them in the ground and they just get on and do their thing, producing plenty…

It’s a bit of an acquired taste, but once you’ve got it, you’ve got it! They are great for salads and with regular picking you can get a lot from…

Celery has a bit of a bad reputation for being tricky to grow, but the good news is that we do all the hard work for you. So when your…

Celeriac is one of those underrated vegetables that is not the most beautiful looking, but is truly tasty! We’re very much rooting for it and would like to see it…

Growing carrots is pretty straightforward – the two key things to remember are to make sure the soil quality is good (more on that below) and protect them from carrot…

Well, we all know how these can be the outcast of the vegetable world, but we rate them very highly indeed – stir fried with a little chopped up bacon…

Broccoli and calabrese, like the other Brassicas are really nutritious vegetables and they are nice and easy to grow in the garden. Calabrese and broccoli are from the same family and often get mixed up….

Kale is a super nutritious vegetable that falls into the Brassicas category. Brassicas need to be looked after in much the same way. It’s a big category, with cauliflower, calabrese,…