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...

With the arrival of autumn comes a task that’s the bane of the season for many gardeners.

After a long summer of getting the best out of your lawn, it is time to start preparing it for winter.

With an estimated 24 million gardens in the UK, this provides a huge amount of space and opportunity to help wildlife...

If your patio looks a little drab and uninteresting after a colourful summer, then plant up your containers with late...

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Find out how you can grow your own mushrooms at home.

Juicy, nutritious and refreshing, there remains something slightly exotic about watermelon - and perhaps they’re a rare...

When it comes to watering rhododendrons, azaleas, camellias and other lime-hating, acid-loving, ericaceous plants, they...

Chives are a low maintenance, easy to grow perennial herb, grown for their onion-scented tasting leaves.

Just imagine growing your own delicious oranges, picked straight from the tree and eaten as fresh as is imaginable. Is...

Tarragon isn’t a widely grown herb at home, but it is well worth it especially if you like French cuisine.

There are two types of fennel, herb and Florence, both of which are extremely popular – as well as highly ornamental –...

Parsley is a very commonly grown herb, used mainly as a garnish and to make delicious parsley sauce.

One of the loveliest views in the garden is the gently swaying bamboo.

Forget the hard, green bullets you often buy in shops for cooking with, dessert gooseberries have rich, sweet, and juicy...

Chamomile (or camomile) is the name given to several daisy-like plants. The two most popular types of chamomile are...