How to grow food

Clare Foster shares how to grow Brussels sprouts, the most controversial staple of the Christmas table

With winter on the way, it is time to harvest the final crops, sow and protect hardier varieties and nurture your soil in preparation for planting next spring.

In a new series, our garden editor Clare Foster lays out a month by month guide to getting a kitchen garden off the ground. In this latest instalment, Clare offers advice on growing, watering, harvesting and storing pumpkins and squash

It is time to focus on tomatoes as they ripen in the greenhouse or outside, encouraged by regular pruning, watering and harvesting

Our garden editor Clare Foster lays out a month by month guide to getting a kitchen garden off the ground. In this seventh instalment, Clare discusses the advantages of companion planting and harvesting regularly

In a new series, our garden editor Clare Foster lays out a month by month guide to getting a kitchen garden off the ground. In this sixth instalment, Clare discusses the first harvests and sowing for a succession of salad leaves

In a new series, our garden editor Clare Foster lays out a month by month guide to getting a kitchen garden off the ground. In this fourth instalment, keeping weeds at bay is just one of the jobs on the list

Matthew Fort waxes lyrical about the arrival of new potatoes on the veg garden scene, and offers suggestions for how best to eat these summer treats

Our garden editor Clare Foster examines the mainstays of the kitchen garden, and offers advice for their cultivation. In this part, she looks at how to grow tomatoes, with the help of West Dean gardener Alex Miller.

Wondering how to grow asparagus? This delicious perennial vegetable is easy to grow and produces nutritious spears in spring and early summer

Our garden editor Clare Foster examines the mainstays of the kitchen garden, and offers advice for their cultivation. In this part, she looks at how to grow potatoes, with the help of West Dean gardener Alex Miller

We've heard of nettle soup, but how about some roast dandelion root with your next Sunday roast, or some elderberry vinegar drizzled over your nettle salad? Herbalist and full-time forager Natasha Lloyd lifts the lid on what's safe to forage for–and what to do with your foraged goods.

Fed up of rising butter prices? Certain foods are now more cost-effective to produce or grow yourself at home - Athina Kontos looks at the best options

Overwhelmed with courgettes and other harvest season goods? You're not the only one. Matthew Fort both celebrates and bemoans the season of glut, and suggests an excellent recipe for courgettes en masse

Lockdown has turned us all into avid gardeners and what better way to channel that than by plotting your own kitchen garden for a year-round crop of fresh produce.

Our garden editor Clare Foster examines the mainstays of the kitchen garden, and offers advice for their cultivation. In this part, she looks at how to grow spinach and chard, with the help of West Dean gardener Alex Miller

Continuing her series surveying the staples of the vegetable plot, Clare Foster unearths the history of the leek, and advises on its cultivation

In the latest instalment of her series on vegetable garden staples, Clare Foster digs up the history of Florence fennel, and offers advice on its cultivation

Our garden editor Clare Foster examines the mainstays of the kitchen garden, and offers advice for their cultivation. In this part, she looks at how to grow broad beans, with the help of West Dean gardener Alex Miller.

Our garden editor Clare Foster examines the mainstays of the kitchen garden, and offers advice for their cultivation. In this part, she looks at how to grow beetroot, with the help of West Dean gardener Alex Miller