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Grow your own: Peppers
There are two types of pepper, or capsicum, to give them their proper name. There are the chilli peppers and the sweet peppers, the latter being the milder relatives
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Grow your own: Plums
Plums are addictive. Just plant a tree in your garden, wait for it to become heavily laden with ripe juicy fruit, as it surely will, and try to resist eating one, then another, then another…
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Grow your own: Potatoes
Potatoes are one of our staple foods and a familiar veg to all. There is always a great supply of relatively cheap potatoes in our supermarkets all year round, so why grow your own?
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Grow your own: Raspberries
Raspberries taste great and their easy-going nature makes it so easy to grow your own.
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Grow your own: Radish
Radish is one of the easiest vegetables you can grow and one of the fastest to mature. It can be grown between slower crops such as leeks or brassicas making it useful for the small plot where space is limited.
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Grow your own: Runner beans
These must be UK gardeners’ all time favourite beans, yet they can be a little temperamental. This is often because hot weather prevents the pollination of flowers needed to produce pods, but usually a drop in temperature will get them…
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Grow your own: Salad Leaves
The popularity of pillow-packs of salad leaves in supermarkets has helped to fuel the popularity of grow-your-own salad crops.
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Grow your own: Spinach
Spinach is a crop is not hugely popular as a cooked vegetable but the young leaves are used more in salads now.
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Grow your own: Squashes
Squashes are members of the gourd family and include pumpkins, courgettes and marrows.
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Grow your own: Strawberries
Strawberries are among the easiest and most adaptable fruits we can grow since they are just as happy in a strawberry pot on the patio or a hanging basket as they are in the soil on the veg plot.
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Grow your own: Sweetcorn
There is nothing more delightful on a warm summer’s evening than eating barbecued home-grown sweetcorn; the juices and melted butter dribbling down your chin. This crop is simple to grow and a great one to involve children in. You’ll have…
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Grow your own: Turnips & Swede
Home-grown turnips are the best to eat. They can be harvested about golf ball size and eaten raw in salads, rather like radishes, or cooked in many ways.
