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Top tips for homegrown onions and a tasty home-made tart

Sink your teeth into some grow your own inspiration and try growing your own onions. With some gardening advice from our friends at BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine, you’ll be able to make a delicious tart, using Nadiya Hussain’s recipe as seen at the BBC Good Food Show Summer 2022.

From soups and salad , to warming onion gravy , curry , tarts and much more , Allium cepa find their way into a immense diversity of dishes , giving you all the more reason to get them into your patch this November . Read below for some swell originate tips , and for a tasty lemony recipe , sodding for your homegrown produce .

TIP ! In fall , unwashed onion plant planting varieties let in ‘ Autumn Champion ’ and ‘ Electric ’ – these are more tolerant to the colder stipulation .

How to grow

Growing onions from set is usually a little easy and quicker , but you may also grow from seed . seed these indoors 1 cm aside in moist compost in January . When the seedlings are a few inches tall , transfer them into multi - purpose compost . You ’ll be able-bodied to plant them into the garden hail spring .

Help with problems

When the leave-taking droop over and plough brown , it ’s time to harvest your onions ! Loosen the soil with a crotch and lift out your produce . To store , leave alone your onions on a drying rack or on newspaper . Their extinct skins will rustle when they ’re juiceless , and you’re able to then hang up them in a coolheaded , dark , wry position to stash away .

Feeling hungry ? Why not try making a delicious working girl with your home - uprise produce , as seen at the BBC Good Food Show Summer at the 2022 Show . Find out more below …

French onion and blue cheese tart

This recipe is from the BBC Good Food Show Summer 2022, as seen on the Big Kitchen at the BBC Good Food Show Summer with chef Nadiya Hussain. The recipe is from Nadiya Bakes by Nadiya Hussain.

Ingredients

1.Melt the butter in a large non - stick sauteing pan , and add the onion , ail and Citrus limon thyme leave , amalgamate everything together . mix in in the sugar , 1 tsp black black pepper and 1 tsp Strategic Arms Limitation Talks . Stirring occasionally , leave to falsify for 30 moment on a medium estrus .

2.Heat the oven to 200C/180C buff / gas 6 and trace a baking tray using parchment . wave out the pastry dough onto the tray .

3.Score a modest rectangle 1 curium inside the pastry rectangle lightly with a knife . check that you do n’t cut the pastry all the way through . Next thrust the inner rectangle with a fork , to allow steam to get away . Brush the edge with the egg , and broil for 20 minutes .

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4.With the back of a spoon , push down the puffed - up pastry dough of the interior rectangle to leave you a great border .

5.Crumble the blue cheese and onion into the pastry and broil for another 15 minute of arc . nerveless for 10 minutes before eating and dot your chives on top .

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We ’re through the garden logic gate into 2023 , with a emcee of horticulture trends blossom throughout the nation . Fromhouse plantsreaching dizzying heights of popularity , to the colour of the yr ‘ Viva Magenta’,read on for our full listing of trend .

To get up close and personal with fresh garden inspiration , new plants , the latest horticulture kit and more , join us in 2023 .

Colour of the Year 2023

paw - picked by Pantone , the colour of the class has been named as ‘ Viva Magenta .

Pantone distinguish the colour as‘brave and fearless , and a pulsating color whose exuberance raise a joyous and optimistic celebration , writing a Modern narrative . ’

bring out a world of color and scent in the stunningFloral Marquee ,   bursting with accolade - winning baby’s room and exhibit .

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Sustainable gardening

Whilst your garden might seem to already be very green , it can always be greener !

Discover ways you could make horticulture more sustainable , like upcycling common items to make stylish feature . What was a pallet , hessian bags , bits of tube , and tin can , could become a planter , produce grip , water supply features , and wildlife habitat .

Be inspired by the BBC Gardeners ’ World Magazine column team as they ’re joined by experts to give tips and advice .

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Grow your own food

look to go from soil to supper this year ? Get bright advice from the National Allotment Society at the event .

Peat-free gardening

watch about the latest peat - loose compost from exhibitors who can offer face - to - face advice .

Indoor gardening

Foliage does n’t just belong outside – bring nature indoors and be inspired by the Houseplant Hub .

Mindful gardening

Beautiful Borders hark back   with this year ’s theme ‘ My Garden Escape ’ to give you   space savvy idea .

Gardening on a budget

find different style you could let your garden bloom under a tighter budget , with advice from expert nurseryman .

Fermented foods

chatter the BBC Good Food Summer Show ( with free entry with your slate ! ) and discover the later foodie trends .

Feeling inspired ? Find out what else is happening at BBC Gardeners ’ World live on this June !

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