The best vegetables to grow - chosen by an expert
Rekha Mistry shares her top vegetables to grow in your garden all year round.
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Rekha Mistry shares her top vegetables to grow in your garden all year round.
Rekha Mistry is a passionate kitchen gardener, a regular on BBC's Gardeners World and a member of the RHS Plant Committee.
Here she shares her favourites to grow in the garden.
Sow with heat for germination. Try ‘Hungarian Hot Wax’.
Grow from cloves to harvest in July. Try ‘Solent Wight’.
Chunky seeds, quick to sprout. Try ‘The Sutton’.
Plant bare-root trees for harvest after year two. Try ‘Red Falstaff’.
Sow with heat, to plant out in May. Try ‘Gigante di Napoli’.
Rekha’s Kitchen Garden by Rekha Mistry (DK, £18.99)
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