Grow your own

Advice & inspiration

There’s nothing more magical than eating fresh produce straight from the plant.

Herbs are one of the best plants to grow when you have a nice bit of sunshine to enjoy.

Even if you only have a small garden or just a patio, you can still easily grow your own tasty fruit and vegetables.

Interest in ‘Homegrown’ continues to rise and growing your own super tasty and healthy fruit and vegetables at home is...

Summer bedding plants and summer-flowering bulbs brighten up our gardens. Learn how to care for your plants to keep them...

For a lawn, summer can be the most stressful time of the year. So what can you do to keep your summer lawn looking its...

Keeping blooms bursting with life and staying on top of cropping means there’s plenty to keep you busy in the summer.

When going to a garden centre of DIY store, it’s very easy to become confused by all the different types of compost out...

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Ever wondered how tea is produced? Let us take you on the process and hopefully inspire you to grow your own tea.

Allotment gardening is enjoying something of a renaissance. With the Big Allotment Challenge on the TV, celebrity chefs...

Organic gardening is becoming an increasingly popular alternative to expensive, tasteless and out of season fruit and...

Growing and eating kale, or borecole, has never been more popular.

Whether it’s sweet corn or a different variety, corn is one of the world’s most important seed-based crops. It’s a...

Drinking your own homegrown homebrew with friends and family is a fun and rewarding experience, and always a talking...

Broccoli is now an incredibly popular vegetable – probably mainly due to its high vitamin content and its supposed use...

The process for growing peppers is very similar to how you would grow chilli peppers (obviously) and more surprisingly...

A few simple herbs can elevate your cooking, and there’s nothing quite as good as using herbs you’ve grown yourself.

Broad beans are a delicious vegetable that’s easy to grow and well worth the space in the garden. The flowers are highly...

Bursting with vitamin C, currants are an easily grown soft fruit.

Sage is a very popular shrub, mainly grown for its leaves, which are strongly scented.