Garden peas are so much more satisfying than anything bought, and frankly irresistible straight from the popping pod. Take out a spade-wide drill a couple of inches deep, and place the seeds thinly along and across it from end to end. Put a stout stick in at each end, and sufficient others at intervals to support some netting or mesh, then neatly shovel soil back over the seeds. Makeshift tunnels of chicken wire will protect the seedlings from birds until they can get going up the framework. The whole set-up occupies very little space, and the rewards are prolific.
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If heaven is on earth, it might be in this home with a converted chapel that is now a swimming pool5 Wood Barton Town House is part of an exclusive 80-acre development in Devon that also comes with fishing rights on the River Avon and four bedrooms.
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An Italian-inspired recipe for lemon-butter pasta shells with spring greens, ricotta and pangrattatoSpring greens are just about to come into their own, so our Kitchen Garden columnist reveals exactly what to do with them.
