This side salad can accompany loads of dishes - why not try it with a jacket potato or fish cakes, or make a smaller version to go alongside a tuna sandwich or add falafel for a filling lunch?
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Grow Your Own in 2021 – August
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August is the peak harvest time! Get your trugs, punnets and baskets ready. Remember to only pick what you want to reduce food waste. Salad leaves, chard, carrots and radish can be kept fresh in bowls or jugs ...
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Step by Step: Herby Roast Veggies
Use this recipe card to roast veggies for Sunday dinner! You could grow these ingredients - carrots, parsnip and radish grow well in the UK. You could also roast swede, pumpkin or squash, celeriac and sprouts.
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Grow Your Own in 2021 – July
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July is traditionally the time to start harvesting onions and garlic so that they can dry in the warmer weather. It is also a fab time to start crops for christmas if you didn’t start anything in June. If you ...
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Grow Your Own in 2021 – June
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June is the start of the harvest period! You can also keep sowing seeds for successional cropping, and loads of flowers can be direct sown this month too. There is still time to start sweetcorn, peas, beans, ...
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Grow Your Own in 2021 – May
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May is the time to start a lot of summer cropping seeds! This includes courgette, sweetcorn, peas & beans, leaf crops and also autumn pumpkins & squash. You can also sow more of the things you did in ...
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Grow Your Own in 2021 – April
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April is a great time to sow your second lot of seeds if you are doing successional sowing. This method can be used for lots of food crops. It's also a great time to start the rest of your main food ...
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Grow Your Own in 2021 – March
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March is the start of the growing your own frenzy! I get very excited in March and try to start everything, but this year I will pace myself.
Read the January guide here and the February guide here.
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Free Printable Step by Step Pages
We have been producing step by steps which are then shared on our social media. We are posting them here as an easy to find resource! Click each picture to open in a new window, right click, select 'save image as'.
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Grow Your Own in 2021 – February
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Welcome to our new blog series! This year, we are going to post monthly blogs with loads of information about what to sow during that month, indoors and out, or what you can directly sow outside, and also ...
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