QUICK AND EASY VEGETABLES AND HERBS FOR AUTUMN

Chives: Much easier than onions or garlic but add a similar flavour.

Spring onions: Leave a few to flower and set seed and you will never need to plant them again.

Swiss chard: Relatively hassle-free and grows throughout the year. Save seeds for replanting.

Beetroot: A multipurpose, quick-growing crop. You can eat the leaves and root. Lettuce: Do successive sowing to ensure regular harvesting.

Rocket, mustard, bok choy, mizuna: Easy to grow and will seed themselves.

Radish: Quickest vegetable from seed to harvest.

Coriander: Best sown directly where it’s to grow. When transplanted it tends to go to seed quickly.