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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Cherries are one of the best fresh fruit flavours of summer and they’re pretty easy to grow at home. Improvements and...

When grown well, pears are succulent and juicy – so much so they’re best eaten in the bath so you don’t get covered in...

Chutney can be the perfect addition to a wide variety of dishes. From the popular mango chutney to complement Indian...

Apples are the most popular and one of the easiest tree fruit to grow. Although they are usually grown as half standards...

Leeks are the easiest member of the onion family to grow and are a fabulous vegetable for winter use, when other veg may...

Nothing beats the taste of your own home-grown tomatoes, freshly-picked and warm from the summer sun.

Feeding fruit bushes early in spring ensures that the plant roots can draw on valuable nutrients whenever they come into...

It’s not only Popeye that likes spinach. It is now a popular salad leaf, as well as a cooked vegetable and can be grown...

Delicious in pies, soups and stews, and full of vitamins and minerals, pumpkins are a tasty autumn and winter treat.

Limes are varieties of Citrus, closely related to oranges and lemons.

Clematis – sometimes known as the queen of the climbers – are very versatile climbing plants.

Blackberries are easy to grow and produce lots of luscious, tasty and juicy fruit with very little work and care.