Pull radishes once the tops of the colourful roots peep above the soil and reach about 1cm (½in) across. Sow another row before they are finished. In 1999, when Huw was 9 months old, he moved with his parents to a smallholding in Mid-West Wales to pursue the goal of self-sufficiency.

Month by month, discover what you need to do and how to do it. Try becoming more self-sufficient in your allotment, a small garden, or even on a roof terrace. Veg In One Bed shows you that you can have a small thriving garden and still be able to maintain it, yielding fresh vegetables all year round. Learn what to do each month on your windowsill, where you'll raise seedlings, and in your raised bed, where your plants will grow to maturity. Everything is explained in clear, illustrated steps: building your bed, growing from seed, planting, feeding, and harvesting. Covers the first year in detail, with the final chapter on "Next Steps" providing suggestions of what to do in years two and three We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. Practicality – being above ground level, a raised bed is easy to work in without standing on the soil and compacting it.Cover the trench lightly with soil using your hand, label it to mark its position and remind you which variety you have sown.

Transplant runner beans into the bed after the last frost. Build a wigwam out of bamboo canes to support them as they grow. Sprinkle radish seeds along the trench using your thumb and forefinger, like a pinch of salt. Try to sow evenly, spacing seeds about 5mm (¼in) apart. The plants will push away from each other as they grow. I love how possible growing my own food feels now that I've read Richards. If his plan works, I'm going to harvest vegetables from May through January, food a-plenty, all from my humble raised bed!

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In just one raised bed, author Huw Richards shows you exactly how to grow vegetables organically, abundantly and inexpensively so you have something to harvest every month of the year. Here’s what you’ll find inside: Radish is perhaps the easiest vegetable you can grow because, just four weeks after sowing, it is ready to harvest. This rapid growth means that radishes easily out-compete weeds. Water with a watering can fitted with a rose. Soak each section of soil for two seconds before moving on. Come along and be inspired for the gardening year ahead. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from Huw, the man The Guardian describe as ‘The Future of Gardening’.