Kitchen Garden

FROM LITTLE SEEDS GREAT THINGS GROW

How long have you been growing your own veg?

This will be my fourth season growing on an allotment scale, although I grew bits and bobs in a succession of small terraced gardens prior to that.

Do you have an allotment or do you grow your veg at home?

I have a full-sized allotment and a small garden at home. We have an old wall running down the side of our garden which has two cordon apple trees trained along it, and it’s also where I put up tepees for our peas and beans in spring/summer, but really I grow almost everything at the allotment, either in my polytunnel or one of my

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