KNOW YOUR PLOT

Getting to know a garden is along process and a luxury. I have had the luxury of working in an organically managed walled vegetable garden in the Cotswolds for the last 12 years and I feel like I have finally got to grips with what works and what does not.

Salad crops, beans and peas, for instance, work beautifully. Root vegetables do not. Over the years I have added ton after ton of well-rotted manure, home-made compost and leaf mould but the Cotswold brash soil keeps throwing up stones. A few years ago I would spend hours on my hands and knees picking individual stones out of each bed. These days I spend my precious time matching the right