Grow Your Own
Chef Skye Gyngell's favourite homegrown herbs, plus tips for growing, harvesting and cooking.
Chef Skye Gyngell and gardener Lucy Boyd from Petersham Nurseries share tips on growing the best salad vegetables at home.
Garden centres will supply seeds and seedlings, but for more unusual varieties look online. Here are a few recommended websites.
Berries and soft fruit are delicious, nutritious and really easy to grow at home, explains chef Skye Gyngell.
"The produce of summer is glorious – and courgettes, peas and broad beans are among the finest,” says chef Skye Gyngell. We're right behind you, Skye.
Vegetables grown in containers will need to be kept well watered...
Watering and feeding your crops
Top tips on nurturing your growing kitchen.
WATERING
Keep crops moist.
In summer, some may need watering twice a day – test by pushing your finger into the soil. If it feels dry, add some more.
FEEDINGThe nutrients in fresh compost will be enough for some crops, but others need their ‘diet’ supplementing with some additional feed.
When the flowers appear, apply a
high potash plant food (liquid tomato fertiliser), weekly for crops grown for their fruit, such as tomatoes. Nitrogen-rich fertilisers, meanwhile, will give leafy crops a boost.