Grown at home

4 steps for making your own home compost Recycle garden and kitchen waste to get an environmentally friendly soil improver for healthy plants. Whether it’s for improving your soil, mulching around shrubs or potting up new plants, homemade compost is a valuable asset in the garden. There’s a lot of myths around making compost and…

Windowsill growing is ideal for salad crops such as loose-leaf lettuce, oriental greens and spinach. By choosing loose leaf varieties, you can harvest what you need, giving the plant a chance to recover and regrow again! Download and keep our handy ‘Grown at Home’ leaflet as well as a copy of our seasonal veg planner.…

Grow your own soft fruit Grow your own soft fruit Raspberry Fruiting Raspberries are ideal for pies, jam or eating fresh. They require free-draining soil and do not like wet soils. Glen LyonGreat for cooking, disease resistantJune – July Glen MagnaSuperb eaten fresh, disease resistantJuly Glen ProsenHigh yields, pest and disease resistantJuly Glen AmpleHigh yields,…

Winter Vegetable Harvest Winter vegetable harvest As well as Potatoes, there are still varieties of vegetables that can be planted now and harvested this autumn. Plant lettuces, spinach and rocket and get a fresh crop in roughly six weeks. To enjoy healthy salads throughout the summer why not plant a small batch every two weeks.…