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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: Swiss Chard
Swiss Chard is worth growing just for its decorative leaves and stems. A clump could be grown in the flower border and not look out of place. The stems and the leaves can be eaten with the leaves making a…
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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.
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Beginners tips: preparing to grow
More and more people are starting to appreciate the benefits of growing their own fresh fruit and veg and areseeking out their own patch to do just that.
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Grow your own: Tomatoes
Tomatoes are a popular greenhouse crop can also be grown outside on the patio or plot or even in a hanging basket if you get the right variety.
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Spring is in the air, so lets start a new plot
So you want to start growing veg or expand an area you already have but you’ve no idea where to start. Or are you about to take on an overgrown allotment? Emma Rawlings offers some tips. Starting to grow your…
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Interest in home gardening grows amidst food shortages
Supermarket shortages mean that many people are looking to the growing opportunities in their own back gardens for the first time.
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