Monty’s summer veg patch PART 3 PEAK HARVEST AND WINTER CROPS
“Above all, August is a celebration of the very best vegetables – fresh and seasonal, and grown with love”
Although a skilful gardener can keep a supply of herbs, fruit and veg going for most of the year, August is undoubtedly the best month for the vegetable garden.
It is an earthy business, growing veg, and all the better for that. There is nothing in the garden that gives me so much pleasure as going round the August vegetable plot, and gathering the amazingly rich harvest that can be found in even the smallest area.
No other month has such largesse to offer, combining the last of earlier crops, like garlic, peas and broad beans, with the first of the later ones, such as French beans, sweetcorn, Florence fennel and the very best, sweetest tomatoes of the year. Onions can be lifted and left to dry in the sun, ready for storage, and the
