Vegetables and Salads

Herbs combine more happily with vegetables than with any other ingredient – they grow together successfully in the garden and then complement each other perfectly in the kitchen.

All good gardeners are aware of the happy association of vegetables with herbs. When grown alongside each other, the right herb should help a vegetable to grow better by combatting attacks from harmful insects or disease. Garlic grown between rows of carrots helps to prevent carrot fly, and summer savory planted among fava beans stops an invasion of blackfly.