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Grow your own: Grapes
Grape vines have been grown in the UK for centuries having, like so many things, been introduced by the Romans.
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Grow your own: Kale
Kale or borecole is one of the best winter greens you can grow and just packed with health-giving nutrients.
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Grow your own: Leeks
Leeks have to be king of the winter vegetables and probably the most popular to grow and eat at this season of the year. It is also the easiest of the onion family to grow and generally undemanding.
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Grow your own: Lettuce
Lettuce has to be one of the most popular vegetables to grow. It is fast maturing, the ultimate salad ingredient and can be grown in a relatively small area.
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Grow your own: Marrows & Courgettes
Courgettes and marrows have to be the first choice for beginners to veg growing. They grow quickly and produce masses of fruit without too much trouble making them real confidence boosters.
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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…
