Grow, Cook, Eat
Grow Cook Eat is a new series about how you can grow your own food: you can grow vegetables and fruit in a very small garden, or even in containers on an apartment balcony, you don't need half an acre or a polytunnel to do it.
The Potato
Far from humble, the potato is a great source of nutrition, and surely the most versatile vegetable in terms of how it can be cooked.
Tomatoes – A Meal in Themselves
Unfortunately, most of the imported supermarket tomatoes we buy taste of absolutely nothing at all. It is not until you grow your own that you realise this!
Garlic
Garlic is relatively easy to grow and stores extremely well. It's also incredibly good for you. The garlic requirements of an average family can be easily satisfied by even the smallest vegetable patch, or container.
Beetroot
Many people have an aversion to beetroot because the only way they have ever tasted it is boiled and drowned in vinegar! If this is your experience, it deserves a second chance as it is a fine root crop.
Carrots
Carrots require a deep, light, stone free, fertile soil to do well. But if you get the soil right, you will be rewarded with a crunchy, sweet and flavoursome crop which will store well.
Salads
Although it's hard to beat the nostalgic crunch of a head of lettuce, most of us have come to expect much more from our salads than crunch.
Peas
Peas are almost never available in the shops fresh, always frozen. As soon as a pea is picked from the plant the sugars inside it start to turn to starch which means the flavour starts to deteriorate immediately.
