national allotment week

Growing your own fruit and vegetables

How to boost your veg patch through crop rotation

Do you know your brassicas from your legumes, or which veg can be grown side by side?

National Allotments Week (August 10-16, nsalg.org.uk) is the ideal time for beginner gardeners to get to grips with plant families and crop rotation, for the best chance of success with veg grown as annuals – the ones you will sow and harvest within one year.

There are four major groups of...