TUNA SALAD

TUNA SALAD

A colourful finely diced salad – ensuring you get a bit of everything in every bite! Eat it as it is, or use it as a sandwich filling. SERVES 4 Preparation time: 15 minutes | Cooking time: 10 minutes FOR THE SALAD: • 2 tins tuna (dolphin friendly) • 1 red bell pepper, diced • 1 tin black beans, drained…
How to encourage children to eat their greens

How to encourage children to eat their greens

Squire’s Garden Centres are running a great activity at May Half Term Dates: Monday 29th May – Friday 2nd June 2017 Times: 10am – 4pm Locations: All Squire’s Garden Centres (except Chertsey) www.squiresgardencentres.co.uk Activities: Plant a Fruit & Vegetable Box (ÂŁ5.50) Veggie Hunt (FREE) What’s an easy and fun way to get your children to eat their greens? Well why…
Lettuce & Spinach Soup

Lettuce & Spinach Soup

by Gaby Bartai My verdict on lettuce in soup: yes, but it needs company. Lettuce on its own produces altogether too mild a flavour, but to my taste, an all-spinach soup is just too green for its own good. Half and half makes a happy marriage – while providing a good use for any lettuce that is threatening to bolt. Ingredients…

Edible Garden for Chelsea’s Great Pavilion

See the totally edible garden being produced by the Miracle-Gro Company at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show.  According to Vicky Page, the company’s spokesperson, “We are packing the raised beds with an amazing variety of edible flowers, productive fruit trees and a host of different vegetables that will be displayed in tip-top condition.” The Miracle-Gro’wers Urban School Garden will be…
Veg plot in a bag

Veg plot in a bag

There is one product that has opened up the world of cultivating veg like no other and that’s the growing bag. One of the best inventions ever for gardeners has to be the growing bag and whatever size of plot you have the growing bag has a place. They are most often used in greenhouses to grow tomatoes and cucumbers,…