To celebrate the new ‘It Starts with a Pot’ campaign, I thought I would gather together some inspiration for how to grow your own food in containers, as this is certainly how I began my GMO (Grow My Own) journey. Key tips are: when you buy plants in little pots from garden centres or supermarkets, you…
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Seeds and Soil: key ingredients for Fabulous Food
Where does your food come from? All of it begins with the soil and a seed – from there it is just a case of when you eat it; as a shoot, a leaf, a fruit, or an animal that has fed on the plant. All the top chefs from around the world recognise this…
Grow Your Own Happiness (and Blueberries)
One of the most unexpected pleasures of “grow your own” has been the happiness I experience wandering around the garden by myself with a cup of tea in my dressing gown, before anyone else in the house is up & about. Not glamorous I know, but those moments of peace & quiet as I gently…
Grow Your Own Onions
As you know if you follow this blog, I tend to stumble along with amateur enthusiasm when it comes to gardening and my grow your own onions experience was no exception. Planting them is simple: just buy a net of tiny onions from a garden centre, put each one in the ground in about October,…
10 Juicy Nuggets about Plums
One of the fabulous things about food is that we can share it with other people & create a social bond that makes us happier. In the photo below are some plums that my neighbours have just given me, picked from the plum tree that was in their garden when they bought their home over…
Growing Your Own Garlic
Well it seems to me (as a very amateur gardener) that not all grow your own seems to be worth the effort, because for some crops you need an awful lot of land to make a big impact on your weekly grocery bill. However some fruit & veg definitely do give a great return not…
Great Value Gardening
Looking for a cost effective way to fill up your garden? Great value gardening can be achieved by using mail order plug plants, but tip number one, don’t be a numpty like I was first time round and joyfully tip them out of their containers without first checking the codes to find out what each one…
Grow Your Own Beauty
One of the most unexpected pleasures of growing my own fruit & veg is the fact that I also seem to be growing my own beauty to enjoy each day. The majority of these supposedly utilitarian plants blossom into the most incredible flowers, to attract pollinators so that they can then produce the fruits, beans,…
The seeds of new beginnings
Well it seemed like an appropriate thing to do on Easter Sunday, to plant seeds. My children will both have left home by the end of this year so the sandpit gets a new lease of life as a seed nursery; and I like the symbolism of new beginnings for all of us. Will it…
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