Kitchen Garden

OUR PLOTTER OF THE MONTH

COLIN START

FROM CAMBRIDGESHIRE

Colin has had an allotment for eight years and started growing his own because vegetables just didn’t have the flavour he recalled they had when he was growing up.

Why do you like growing your own veg?

The taste of home-grown veg is so much better. I also enjoy being outside and digging is great exercise. And the veg is cooked the same day I

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