Monty Don warns everyone with a garden to take action 'every three weeks'

Monty Don has warned UK households who have a garden to take a key action every three or four weeks. The BBC Gardeners' World star has shared the one vegetable that’s the "easiest of all plants grow" and says it "tastes wonderful".

The gardening pro claimed that lettuce is “one of the easiest of all plants to grow”. Monty, who is renowned for his gardening expertise, went on to say lettuce "always tastes wonderful" and can be used by many households as it's versatile.

Monty urged: “To avoid a glut or, worse, your lettuce all running to seed at once in very hot weather, the secret is to have good succession - which essentially means maintaining a small but constant supply of plants rather than one big harvest.

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“To do this sow some new seed every three or four weeks and as one batch goes over another will be ready to eat with a third growing on as young seedlings.” A few seeds sown thinly will “provide healthier, leafier lettuces” rather than a mass of thick seedlings.

Monty, aged 68, said: "it is best to sow into plugs and plant out the seedlings when they are growing strongly as “you cannot protect the delicate seedlings from slug attack”. Monty recommends that every gardener “experiments with different varieties until they find the ones that they like”.

He also said Romaine was "best of all" but Little Gem “will do well from an early sowing and certainly is always worth finding room for in the garden”. He said: “Red Salad Bowl tastes great and looks fantastic. Red lettuce grows slower than green ones and tends to be a little bitter - which I like.

"They are also less likely to be eaten by slugs than green leaves.” He went on: “The sooner you can plant seed for first earlies the sooner you can enjoy that delicious harvest that always tastes so much better than any that you can buy.”

“I also grow them in a raised bed simply pushing each seed potato in a six-inch deep hole made with a dibber with each plant about 18 inches apart in a grid," he added.