If you want to tuck into stews and delicious bowls of soup next winter, it’s time to get busy sowing and planting root vegetables.
Beetroot, carrot, daikon, radish, parsnip, turnip, swede and, in the subtropics, onion, can all be started in summer for autumn-to-winter harvest.
Some, such as radish, will be ready before winter to be pulled from the ground and sliced for salads and sandwiches or just eaten washed and fresh from the garden.
Turnip is another fast cropper, with
