Roots are, well, the root of good plant health! When you give roots a healthy start, your plants are much more likely to be able to survive drought, heat, cold, poor soil and disease - everything your veg plot could throw at it. 
This sowing season, we're looking at how to give roots the best possible start using boosters, root trainers, Jiffy Pellets, soil testing equipment and more! 

Watch our Gardening Angel Paul planting up some Electric Daisys growing in our Herbgrow Planter. 

Our radishes growing in the Saladgrow salad planters are ready to be harvested, you will know they are ready when the radish reaches roughly golf ball size and has turned bright red.

Read more to watch our harvesting video

Watch our brave Gardening Angels tasting some fizzy electric daisys.

After just 5 weeks our Gardening Angel Sarah has had a bumper harvest of spring onions from our large Saladgrow planter. You can create your own salad garden with our Saladgrow planter all year round.

5 weeks after sowing our Radish in our large Saladgrow Planter, Gardening Angel Sarah is already harvesting a bumper crop of Radish and we've eaten it all up for some tasty salads.

Watch our Gardening Angel Paul setting our our Saladgrow Planter. Perfect for growing salad all year round, you can expect to have bumper harvests in 5-6 weeks.

Our Saladgrow Planters are great for growing tasty salad all year round. Watch our Gardening Angel Paul sowing salad seeds, resulting in a bumper harvest of fresh salad for us to feast on.

On Saturday the lambs lettuce in number 1 Saldgrow had reached mammoth proportions, so we harvested it to enjoy alongside chilli and naan breads. I harvested by cutting (so that the leaves will grow back) but was pleased as punch to see that they seemed to have grown back by Monday evening! You just can't keep a good lettuce down...

Back to Saturday, the leaves were as delicious as only a lettuce eaten within minutes of harvesting can be and were the perfect fresh counter-balance to the rich chilli and a bottle of absolutely delicious Argentinian Vinalba Malbec from the lovely chaps at Majestic wine warehouse.

Chilli can be a controversial dish and at the risk of causing an uprising I will admit that I don't put much chilli in my chilli as I prefer spice to heat - better for the wine too; so for me it's cumin, fennel, coriander, cinnamon, black pepper, some chilli and good dark chocolate.