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Welcome to Gr Cook Eat Arrange the podcasts of me, Sarah Raven and various different guests.

And I have been doing a kitchen garden mini series. And this is the final episode of it. So it's episode seven and it's the episode concentrating on the absolute must-haves. So whatever size your garden, if you've got a window

box, if you've got a doorstep, if you've got one raised bed, what would be the plants

that I would recommend that you grow to really enhance your

garden and your cooking? And those are these.

As ever with me, and you can refer back if you want to hear more about this to early in the

series, I divide between August and April and between April and August. And for me, four

absolute must-haves for August to April are Flatleaf parsley, Giant of Napoli. Now I have talked about

this really quite a lot in episode two and I've mentioned it in episode three. And in fact,

I think I mentioned it in episode four. So I'm not going to mention it again. I just need it to

be here because it is absolutely the one plant that if I was only going to grow one plant

throughout the year, it would be flat leaf parsley giant of Napoli. It's easy to grow. It's

incredibly durable to harvest, i.e. you can pick it every day of the year. It's very

hardy. It can grow under frost or snow. I tend to, in the hot summer months, I have a bottle

in the door of my fridge with a little bit of water in the bottom and I just put the stems of my flat

leaf parsley in the fridge and it will last five or six days like that. So I don't even have to go out

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