With supermarket prices continuing to skyrocket and shelves being empty more often, why not grow a few goodies to help create your favourite sweet treat? I’m thinking of those tasty ingredients we add to our biscuits, cakes, pies and crumbles to make them irresistible to family and friends.
RHUBARB CRUMBLE AND PIES
I’m a massive fan of rhubarb in my baking, from traditional crumble and pies to yoghurt and rhubarb cake and simple compotes to pour over ice cream. The problem I have with the rhubarb season is the fact it doesn’t last long enough, until now! While old favourites like ‘Timperley Early’ will produce armfuls of stalks for a couple of months before growth slows for summer dormancy, new varieties such as British-bred ‘Livingstone’ have been created to crop all the way through summer and into early autumn, giving months more harvest from just one plant.
My plants are grown in open-bottomed raised beds, but rhubarb is always best grown in the ground, preferably with added manure. This hungry plant is great to grow at the side of the compost heap where it will have access to more nutrients and can be happily left to grow there for years; after all, it’s one of the easiest perennial veg you can grow (yes it’s a vegetable, even though we treat it as a fruit).
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SEPTEMBER SPECIALS
This month, with sweetcorn, figs and blackberries on the menu, Anna Cairns Pettigrew is not only serving up something sweet and something savoury, but all things scrumptious
FLAVOURSOME FRUIT AUTUMN RASPBERRIES
September - is it late summer or the start of autumn? David Patch ponders the question and says whatever the season, it's time to harvest autumn raspberries
SOW GREEN THIS AUTUMN
Covering the soil with a green manure in winter offers many benefits and this is a good time to sow hardy types, says KG editor Steve Ott
A HISTORICAL HAVEN OF FRUIT AND FLOWERS
KG's Martin Fish takes time out from his own plot to visit a walled garden in Lincolnshire which has been home to the same family for more than 400 years
RESTORING THE BALANCE
The phrase regenerative gardening is often heard in gardening circles, but what is it? Can it help you to grow better veg? Ecologist Becky Searle thinks so, and tells us why
WASTE NOT, WANT NOT
Garden Organic's Anton Rosenfeld shares his expertise on using compost made from green bin collections with handy tips on getting the right consistency and quality
Celebrating Organic September!
In this special section we bring you four great features aimed at improving your crops and allowing nature to thrive
SEEING RED
Do your tomatoes have a habit of remaining stubbornly green? Or perhaps you're lucky to enjoy lots of lovely fruits - just all at once. Either way, Benedict Vanheems is here with some top tips to ripen and process the nation's favourite summer staple
NEW KIDS ON THE BROCCOLI!
Rob Smith is talking broccoli this month with a review of the different types available and suggestions for some exciting new varieties to try
A NEW kitchen garden
Martin Fish is getting down to plenty of picking and planting on the garden veg plot, while Jill is rustling up something pepper-licking good!
