Summer’s here and the time is right to direct sow vegetables in your garden (opens in new tab)

Starting your crops where you will harvest them avoids transplant shock and can speed growth. Just beware of hungry animals!I like to think of myself as a fairly laissez-faire food grower. I see the prescribed sowing windows as guidance mostly, and have been known to bung a healthy seedling in a bed alongside a different plant family even if it goes against my crop plan. But when sowing seeds, I am all about control. I’m a devoted user of modular seed trays, preferring to keep my seeds compar...