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Grow your own: Apples
Shop-bought apples are great, but if you have never grown your own, your choice will have been restricted to a handful of varieties chosen partly for taste.
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Grow your own: Apricots
Apricots are a favourite for drying and the nutrient-packed fruits make a great alternative to sugary sweets in children’s lunchboxes.
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Grow your own: Asparagus
Asparagus is one of the few perennial vegetables (those which come up year after year) and is one of the most highly prized –a true delicacy.
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Grow your own: Beetroot
This is aroot vegetable that you either love or hate but it is unique in its colouring and flavour. It is a more popular vegetable in Eastern Europe and the States where it is used more in hot dishes.
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Grow your own: Blackberries
A walk along any hedgerow in late summer and autumn will bring a tasty harvest of delicious blackberries from the brambles that weave their way through the undergrowth.
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Grow your own: Blueberries
Blueberries were the first of the ‘new’ wonder foods, to be followed by pomegranates, cranberries, grapes… but despite the hype, this fruit really is packed with vitamins and antioxidants.
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Grow your own: Broad beans
This is a great crop for sowing in spring but also autumn to get some delicious beans in June when there is not much else in the veg garden.
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Grow your own: Broccoli
Broccoli is a highly nutritious vegetable that is a must for the veg patch. You will really notice the difference in flavour of your own grown broccoli and, being so fresh, it will contain even more vitamins and health giving…
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Grow your own: Brussels Sprouts
The Brussels sprout is a much-maligned veg probably due because of childhood experiences of eating it overcooked. However, when fresh and picked small straight from the plot, then boiled lightly, this is a truly delicious veg.
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Grow your own: Cabbage
This is another crop that has suffered the same prejudice as the Brussels sprout, again probably due to being served overcooked.
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Grow your own: Cherries
The wonderful taste of ripe, juicy cherries, whether on their own or in tarts, pies and jams, is simply mouth watering; and thankfully this is one fruit that has everything going for it as far as our climate is concerned.
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Grow your own: Cucumbers
The traditional long, smooth cucumbers need to be grown in awarm, almost hot, humid atmosphere so require greenhouse or polytunnel conditions.
