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Grow your own: Onions & Shallots
These crops both belong to the allium family, which also includes garlic, but whereas onions form one large bulb, shallots split to form several small bulbs and are generally milder and sweeter than onions.
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Grow your own: Parsnips
Parsnips are a delicious winter veg that’s not difficult to grow once it gets established but it is a crop that is best grown on a large vegetable patch or allotment.
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Grow your own: Peaches
Although peaches can certainly be grown outdoors in milder or more sheltered areas of the UK, their success is really reliant on the season.
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Grow your own: Pears
Pears are a very popular fruit in our supermarkets, but not the easiest to grow well in our gardens.
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Grow your own: Peas
This has to be one of the favourite veg of all time; even children manage to eat a few peas when they may turn their nose up at other vegetables.
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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: Rhubarb
Rhubarb is probably the easiest of all fruit and veg crops to grow since by and large it can simply be left to produce a harvest of colourful leaf stalks without much help from us.
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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…
