Vegetables and herbs
A first vegetable garden you can actually keep up with
The usual advice is to grow what you eat. The better advice for a first year is to grow what is hard to kill and quick to reward. These five crops do both.
Vegetables and herbs
Food you can grow without a farm. Vegetables and herbs that give a real harvest from a bed, a few pots, or a sunny windowsill, chosen for flavour and for how forgiving they are.
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Vegetables and herbs
Growing herbs on a windowsill that last past week two
The pot of basil from the supermarket is not one plant, it is fifty crammed together and sold to die. Split it, repot it, and give it the light it wants, and it keeps going.