The Kitchen Gardener: Grow Your Own Fruit and Veg

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When water is allowed to slowly soak into the topsoil, it travels deep past the roots, drawing them to follow along, improving stability and anchorage of the plant. It's time for us to close the doors to our green houses for a little while, as we wind down to the end of the current season.

This is a contemporary guide to fruit and vegetable growing that underpins our knowledge with approachable, useful botanical science that we can employ in a practical way. A kitchen garden is a space to grow herbs, leafy greens, root crops, and fruiting plants for everyday use inside the kitchen, plus some beautiful (and oftentimes edible) flowers for the pollinators.Subscribers gain exclusive access to over 10 years worth of digital back issues, and our Mudketeers Club, an online community of growers with further articles and competitions each month. The soil biology works hard to digest and make nutrients plant available, whilst plants feed these microbes with carbon in the form of sugar produced in photosynthesis.

Since this is the third year for my asparagus plants, it will be the first year for eating these delicacies. We're going to have herbs and leafy greens and root crops and fruiting crops all planted together in one bed so that we can harvest them and enjoy them fresh. Roast yours with pancetta for a flavoursome side dish, or add it to a chicken tagine for a hearty meal. We’d love to let you know about the difference our community is making and the ways you can get involved. Potatoes should be given their own bed as they need plenty of space, but salad crops and radishes can be grown wherever there’s room.With four kids and my own business, I don't have the energy or time to tend a row vegetable garden at this stage in my life. The garden has established fruit beds including gooseberries (harvested usually in July), two varieties of rhubarb Early Timperley and Victoria which allow us to extend the season from May sometimes until September. If we learn to save some of our own seeds we not only save money but over time we actually nurture varieties that do especially well on our own plots. Calendula and marigolds are also great, as they offer interest ornamentally, whilst allowing your crops to relax from pests.