More from BBC Gardeners' World

BBC Gardeners' World13 min read
Brassicas
This quick-growing crop is usually called broccoli in the shops and is easy to grow, especially if bought as plug plants, which can be ready to harvest in just three months. Few crops are as varied, versatile and long cropping as cabbages. Summer one
BBC Gardeners' World7 min read
Perennial Crops
It will take a few years to establish but, once you’ve got your asparagus bed cropping, you can look forward to an annual gourmet treat that heralds the fact that spring has well and truly arrived. These underground tubers spread and spread so there’
BBC Gardeners' World2 min read
Kale
Seeds can be sown indoors in modules, or outdoors in warmer weather and transplanted 6-8 weeks later. Sow kale outdoors from March to June as a salad crop (no need to thin, just pick and eat) or from March to June for mature plants (thin out to a spa

Related Books & Audiobooks