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Grow your own

Your cut-out-and-keep guide to growing vegetables at home
  • Secret Garden

    How to set up a school growing project

  • Secret Garden

    Digging the love: the school growing project taking learning outdoors

  • Alfalfa sprouts, close-up (differential focus)

    How to grow mung beans, alfalfa and other sprouting seeds

    Sprouting seeds, nuts or grains is as easy as turning the tap on, even if it is a bit repetitive. But make sure you buy suitable 'sproutable' seeds first...

  • Growing beetroot

    How to grow beetroot and radishes

    Grow your own: Beetroot and radishes are easy to grow. But get sowing now...

  • Grow your own fennel

    How to grow fennel

    Grow your own: Fennel is just as easy to grow now as it was way back when it was used to ward off witchcraft

  • Grow your own Woodstock New York USA Organic Broccoli just harvested

    How to grow your own broccoli

    Grow your own: Not everyone is going to jump at the chance to grow broccoli, but those who do will be in for a treat

  • This is an image of Kale

    How to grow your own kale

    Grow your own: After decades of neglect, when it was dismissed as little better than cattle fodder, this leafy brassica is back in fashion

  • grow-your-own-herbs

    How to grow herbs

    Grow your own… herbs

  • 'The most beautiful old ladder, now in the garden with flowers.'

    Guardian grows competition – share your most original places to grow plants

    Do you grow plants in unusual places? Share your photos for the chance to win up to £100 in garden centre vouchers
  • GYO runner beans

    How to grow climbing beans

    Grow your own: Climbing and runner beans give a garden structure and colour, with their red or white flowers and their towers of greenery

  • Live Better: Sarah Blenkinsop

    Sustainable blog of the week: The Compost Bin

    Sarah Blenkinsop, aka Compostwoman, explains self-sufficiency and sustainability at her family smallholding in Herefordshire
  • GYO Courgettes

    How to grow courgettes

    Grow your own: If you're not careful, you might grow so many courgettes that you don't know what to do with them all

  • Live Better: Tomatoes

    Vertical veg man: how to grow tomatoes successfully

    With the right care you could enjoy eating tomatoes far superior to those in the supermarkets all the way until October
  • Live Better: Emma Cooper

    Sustainable blog of the week: Emma 'the Gardener' Cooper

    Oca to ochocha, this week’s blogger explains what plants inspire her to be a ‘nerd’ and why growing your own remains a passion
  • Grow your own: as plate of rocket leaves

    Grow your own rocket

    Grow your own... rocket. Not as fancy or fussy as it seems, this resurgent Victorian favourite is easy to grow and versatile to use

  • Grow your own: glass bowl of fresh baby spinach on a grunge white painted wood background

    Grow your own spinach

    Grow your own: Plant some spinach in late April and you'll have the first baby leaves in June, ready for steaming, stir-fries or for use in gratins.

  • Live Better: Carl Legge Kale

    Sustainable blog of the week: Carl Legge

    Each Thursday we chat with a blogger who writes about living green. This week it’s Carl Legge, who cooks with home-grown produce on the Llyn peninsula
  • Jason Kay - blogger from Garden In A City

    Sustainable blog of the week: Garden in a City

    Last month, Chicago based blogger Jason Kay told us why he loves to garden. This month, he shares why blogging has become another passion

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