Grow your own

Recommended vegetable varieties can be a very personal thing. Everyone has their favourites but maybe they haven’t tried too many others? To my mind there is every reason to try newer [...]

Growing British apples gives us the opportunity to eat something better! A visit to your local supermarket is unlikely to provide you with much choice and certainly few British varieties. So if [...]

Storing apples should be easy and especially if you follow a few simple rules. From time to time we enjoy a bumper harvests of tree fruits. Any year, and particularly during financially [...]

How to grow figs – after reading this I hope that you’ll try it yourself! Figs are often regarded as an exotic fruit and many assume that they are difficult to grow. This is not the [...]

  Grafted tomatoes and vegetables are becoming much more widely available. Fruit trees, roses, ornamental trees and difficult to propagate shrub varieties have been grafted for years. But [...]

Baby bedding plants can produce a fantastic summer display! If your fingers are pink and not green and if the seeds you sow never seem to come up, then growing pre-germinated seedlings is for [...]

Potatoes in containers can finally get started! And it’s great to ‘grow your own’ again! Whilst I’m sure that the keenest veg gardeners have already got lettuce, broad beans, peas and [...]

Are you considering which tomato variety to grow this year? Well I’ll give you some pointers from a relatively recent trial. Shop bought tomatoes in Winter Sadly the home grown crop is [...]

To grow fresh rhubarb is easy but you need to be patient. Once established rhubarb will keep on cropping for many years with little attention from you! It’s a firm favourite with British [...]

To grow early strawberries is easy and in this blog I’ll tell you how I do it. As with much of life forward planning is everything. If you want home grown tasty and fresh strawberries in [...]