Grow your own - with our specially selected easy to grow range!

More and more people are having a go at growing their own vegetables - and with good reason! Home grown veg is tastier, cheaper and of course fresher (and therefore usually healthier) than anything you can get from the supermarket. Your delicious harvest will have travelled from your plot to your plate within minutes rather than days - no food miles, no additives, no packaging! What's more, you have the satisfaction of having grown it yourself.

But where do you start? It is easy to be put off by the vast number of varieties to choose from or a fear that it will be too difficult, so we have put together this introduction to the subject to ease you in gently!

Most vegetables are quite easy to grow, but some need a little more experience than others, so we suggest starting with a few easy types such as those below and then adding others as your experience develops.

Lettuce, Rocket, Salad Leaves, Radish and Spring Onion will provide you with fresh salad the whole summer long. Click here for growing tips.

Peas and beans are great fresh from the garden and will crop over a long period. Click here for growing tips.

Courgettes will crop continuously and just 2 or 3 plants will give plenty of fruit. Click here for growing tips.

Carrots are delicious picked young - by growing your own you can harvest as and when you need them. Click here for growing tips.

Spinach is nutritious and versatile - you can use young leaves as a salad and larger leaves as a vegetable.Click here for growing tips.

Potatoes are a satisfying crop and nothing beats that fresh-from-the-garden taste. Click here for growing tips.

For our full list of easy to grow veg from seed Click here.

Vegetable Plants

To make it even easier you can always try our easy starter plants. These expertly grown plug plants are delivered ready for planting so you can enjoy bigger, earlier and tastier vegetables. To see our range of garden-ready vegetable plants click here.

General preparation for seeds and plug plants

For growing in the ground - fork over the soil to loosen it, firm the surface lightly and then use a rake to give a level crumbly surface. For growing in containers - put some stones or broken flower pot in the base (this helps with drainage) and fill with good compost up to about 3-5cm (1-2in) from the top. A large container about the size of a bucket is best.