The lost plot: How to grow garlic
Traditionally, garlic is planted on the shortest day of the year and harvested...
In season mid-summer: Raspberries, red onion, garlic
Raspberries
Raspberries get their lovely red colour from anthocyanins, which are beneficial antioxidant phytochemicals.
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Summer...
In season mid-spring: Garlic
Garlic is a packed with flavour and phytonutrients.
A member of the Allium onion...
Why you should eat garlic
Garlic is antioxidant, antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, antithrombotic and anticarcinogenic. Quite an impressive list...
Extreme makeover: Garlic bread
Who doesn't love crunchy, buttery garlic bread? But it's a fat trap that...
Grow your own garlic
Known for its many medicinal properties as well as its pungent smell, garlic...
Edible garden: Growing garlic
It's incredibly easy to harvest your own crop of this pungent vegetable.
Most first-time...
Traditional remedies: Do they work?
Nutritionist Rose Carr investigates whether certain foods live up to the medicinal properties...
