Harvesting

Depending on where you are in the country and when you planted your seed potatoes, it may be time to dig up some of the earlies. Leave the maincrops until…

You can treat Pak Choi and Tatsoi as a Cut & Come Again crop! Depending on when you planted it this autumn, it may be big enough to start harvesting…

The kale pictured here was planted last autumn, in Sept 2020, so it’s just over a year old and still going strong. You can really get a lot from one…

Depending on when you planted your sprouts, and where in the country, you may have a few ready for harvesting around about now. Here are some useful bits of info…

If your pumpkins and winter squashes are ripe then you can bring them in to store now – if the skin is well cured then they should last several months….

It’s always a bit nerve-wracking growing cauliflower as it can seem that for ages the plants just grow more and more leaves, and that the cauliflowers themselves aren’t forming. If…

You don’t need to pull up all your plants at the end of the season…Here’s a useful list detailing the plants that you can happily leave in the ground as…

Borlotti Beans are such a great crop, and if harvested and stored in a certain way you will be able to keep them for several months, ready to bung in…

Some of you may find that your cauliflower and cabbage plants haven’t yet produced anything resembling the nice round cabbage or fluffy white caulifower you were hoping for. If you…

Homegrown sweetcorn is one of the ultimate treats, and harvesting it at the right time and eating it on the same day means you get to enjoy it at its…