BBC Gardeners' World

Small space big flavour

“If you’re not busy outside gardening, what could be nicer than lighting up the barbecue for lazy gatherings with a few friends?”

What a perfect month to spend in the garden. Hopefully all your hard work over the past months has paid off and you’ll be rewarded with broad beans, early strawberries and perhaps even some baby carrots and spring onions.

I was inspired to start more vertical growing a few months ago (it hides how wobbly and in need ofa few apples swelling on the espaliered tree. There’s no sign of fruit from my vigorous balcony-transplanted passion flower, but I live in hope that it might yet produce some.

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