Five vegetables to start growing in your garden now

What veg can you grow in autumn? Gardening expert and broadcaster Pippa Greenwood gives her advice

Pippa Greenwood.

By September, gardeners will be seeing gaps in their vegetable plots where summer favourites such as peas, lettuces, beetroot and broccoli have given their all and are ready to be confined to the compost heap.

But rather than leaving the veg plot full of gaps, it makes sense to get some new residents into the soil, for gentle winter cropping or early harvests next year.