Monty’s summer veg patch PART 1 BEATING THE HUNGRY GAP
“After the ‘hungry gap’, when most plants are still too young to eat and winter’s bounty is used up, summer’s first pickings are a cause for celebration”
tep out of May into June and summer has arrived. The days have become carelessly long, filled with a profligacy of light – if not always with warmth! It’s easy to eagerly expect a harvest as the days reach their longest and the nights start to acquire that balmy warmth we expect from summer. But the period from May to mid-June is not called the ‘hungry gap’ for nothing. All the winter crops – purple sprouting broccoli, kale or leeks – are done and cleared to the compost heap, and other than plenty of salad leaves that do well in the
