Feature Articles
Pest Watch: Know your enemy... onion downy mildew
5 April 2012
Each month Lucy spotlights a common plant pest or disease and explains how to combat it.
Jobs for the month: May 2012
5 April 2012.
Come Armageddon I’m pretty sure one of the species to pull through will be flea beetles. These small, dastardly, hopping beetles with two yellow stripes down their backs are the ones responsible for the tiny holes in your brassica leaves; they appear from nowhere at the first sniff of a host and take a lot of killing. They are at their worst in hot weather and can consume emerging brassicas before you even see them break the surface, and they make a real mess of salads...
Vegan Veg - Recipe: Vietnamese rice pancakes with roasted squash & peanut sauce
5 April 2012.
Rice pancakes are available dried from Asian food shops and some supermarkets. Just dip individual pancakes into boiling water for 10-15 seconds, remove and fill immediately.
Vegan Veg - Recipe: Pumpkin filled dumplings with miso broth
5 April 2012.
The thing about squashes that I love most is their versatility. Different varieties end up on the kitchen doorstep throughout the summer and autumn and many types will keep well through the winter.
Vegan Veg - Recipe: Squash toffee
5 April 2012.
You’ll need a sugar thermometer for this recipe. Also remember to suck rather than chew the finished toffee. This is one that’ll stick around your teeth!
Start the clock for Olympic runners
1 March 2012.
Show growers will be hoping their runner beans win prizes in this Olympic year. Medwyn Williams explains how to avoid false starts with this popular crop.
Jobs for the month: April 2012
1 March 2012.
Sow tomatoes - March and April are the months when most of us are best advised to sow tomatoes. Any earlier and they tend to stretch due to the lower light levels and the first truss of fruit is often lost as a result. If plants do stretch, it is better to throw them away and to start again than to persevere with them.
Vegan Veg - Recipe: Puy lentil cutlets
1 March 2012.
I can’t deny that lentils have an image problem. The picture of Nigel Planer as Neil in The Young Ones sitcom is one that springs to mind all to easily, a nondescript pan of goo bubbling away in the corner.
Vegan Veg - Recipe: Puy lentil cutlets
1 March 2012.
I can’t deny that lentils have an image problem. The picture of Nigel Planer as Neil in The Young Ones sitcom is one that springs to mind all to easily, a nondescript pan of goo bubbling away in the corner.
Vegan Veg - Recipe: Mudjadara
1 March 2012.
I can’t deny that lentils have an image problem. The picture of Nigel Planer as Neil in The Young Ones sitcom is one that springs to mind all to easily, a nondescript pan of goo bubbling away in the corner.
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