Growing your own fresh vegetables, fruit and herbs have become very popular over the last few years. People have awoken to the health benefits, money saving aspect and overall satisfaction that harvesting the fruits of your labours can bring, and we want to help more people grow more and find new ways of growing your own veg.
It’s National Allotment Week and across the UK different events have been taking place to spread the word about growing your own.
Britain's declining bee numbers have been cause for concern but the new beehive by Omlet could be the answer for boosting bee populations.
Waiting lists of up to 9 years across different areas of Wales have led to calls for more to be done to increase growing spaces across the country.
As the first rays of sunshine peer through the clouds we're given an inkling that maybe, just maybe spring could be around the corner. Of course things can change so quickly we'll probably be scraping frost from the windscreen before setting off to work by the end of the week, but we can but hope!
What with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's recent series transforming a piece of derelict land in a Bristol estate into a miniature urban smallholding, and the increasing price of food showing no signs of slowing, growing your own food is becoming an ever more attractive proposition. And what better way to do it than with an allotment?
If you only have a small garden or back yard, consider growing vegetables in containers. Lettuces, potatoes, carrots, raddishes, tomatoes and onions can all be grown successfully in pots without too much trouble, to name but a few.