Grow Your Own Food

From growing herbs in a windowbox to cultivating fruit trees, from planting veg to picking fruit, from making compost to getting an allotment, you can find out all you need to know on 4Homes

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When To Sow And Plant Vegetables

If you're considering growing vegetables in your garden, here's a handy month-by-month calendar to help you plan ahead read more on: When To Sow And Plant Vegetables

Growing Fruit

  • How To Grow Blackberries

    Grown for their flowers as well as their fruit, they make an attractive display trained over a pergola or up a wall

  • How To Grow Apple Trees

    If you've got space - and smaller varieties don't take up that much room - you'll be rewarded with fruit year after year

  • How To Grow Rhubarb

    Hardy rhubarb couldn't be easier to grow, and its stems can be used to make everything from pies to jams

  • How To Grow Blackcurrants

    With the vitamin-packed fruit a rare sight in shops, why not secure an affordable stash by growing your own?

  • How To Grow Raspberries

    Raspberries are relatively easy to grow and you can enjoy sweet, tasty berries right through summer

  • How To Grow Tomatoes

    Home-grown tomatoes don't just taste great - they smell wonderful, too. And they're so easy to cultivate

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