Bags of salad leaves ... of colours that you want for each meal. Most varieties of lettuce are foolproof and can be sown anytime between spring and summer. But by giving the plants protection ...

Without a kitchen garden, I wouldn’t get to enjoy unusuals such as Chilean guava and sweet cicely, but I get at least as much pleasure from the diversity of flavour, colour and texture in everyday ...

If you find that your salad leaves are too bitter for your tastes, try blanching the leaves by covering the plants with an upturned flowerpot. Left like this for a few days before harvesting ...