Welcome to our winter issue of Your Garden

Vegetable gardens can be such enriching, rewarding spaces. The joy of harvesting fresh, homegrown vegetables gives us the satisfaction of self-sufficiency. I’ve been sowing Mr Fothergill’s vegie seeds lately! It’s my escape from a busy schedule, fostering my deep connection with the earth and giving me the gentle exercise that I need. Carrots, spinach and spring onions are germinating well. Sugar snap peas and snow peas (see our recipes page 44) and parsnip have also germinated in the next bed. It’s important to sow parsnip while your soil is still warm, it needs a soil temperature of 10-20°C to germinate.

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