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Growing your own tomatoes is vegetable gardening at its most rewarding. It’s just so satisfying to pick off a ripe, juicy tomato from its vine and pop it straight into…

Swede is easy to grow and stores well too. It is a great veg for stews and casseroles, and you can eat the leaves too (which not many people do simply because they don’t…

Growing potatoes is abundantly fun and they are great for getting children involved. Our friends over at River Cottage advise putting your efforts into growing the more unusual varieties that…

These tasty vegetables do not like the damp or the cold. What they like is a sunny windowsill or a nice warm greenhouse. Chillies are surprisingly easy to grow and…

You’ll find onions and shallots a really useful addition to your veg patch if only because we cook with them so frequently. Growing them with Rocket Gardens is much easier…

Lettuces and other leaves (wild rocket, mizuna, mustard leaves etc) are quick growing and can be ready to harvest in as little as 3 weeks. You can let them grow…

The great thing about leeks is that you get a nice long harvesting period. You can dig them up all through autumn and winter. They are nice and easy to…

There’s nothing better than tasting a home-grown freshly picked cucumber! Cucumbers are a very good salad vegetable to grow, and often give you a surprisingly good crop.

Great for growing with children, pumpkins are unbelievably well behaved and require minimal effort. Winter Squash are very easy to grow and require hardly any effort as well. You pop…

Courgette and Summer Squash are unbelievably easy to grow and require minimal effort. You pop them in the ground and they just get on and do their thing, producing plenty…

It’s a bit of an acquired taste, but once you’ve got it, you’ve got it! They are great for salads and with regular picking you can get a lot from…

Celery has a bit of a bad reputation for being tricky to grow, but the good news is that we do all the hard work for you. So when your…