Welcome to a lovely new giveaway. I’m partnering with the team at Richard Jackson Garden to bring you a great prize which is perfect for getting started with growing your own fruit and veg.
I’ve got five Couch to Five a Day kits to give away to five lucky winners. Each kit contains plants and instructions to help you get growing. Read on to find out more about the kit and how to enter.
Richard Jackson’s Couch to Five a Day Challenge
Richard Jackson is a gardening expert with a huge amount of horticultural knowledge and experience. His online shop has a wide range of plants, seeds, plant food, tools, wildlife products and gifts.
Richard has created the Couch to Five a Day challenge to encourage people to have a go at growing their own fruit and veg. If you’ve tried growing your own in the past but were disappointed with the results, or simply need some help and advice getting started, it’s perfect for you.
The Couch to Five a Day kit contains five top varieties of fruit and vegetable seeds and plants, plus easy-to-follow growing instructions. You don’t need lots of space; everything can be grown in pots on a patio or balcony. And harvesting can start just a few weeks from planting.
The challenge element of Couch to Five a Day is all about sharing your growing progress on social media, using the hashtag #Couchto5aDay. There’s a community of challengers sharing their tips, stories and recipes to inspire you and help you make a success of growing your own.
Here’s what Richard Jackson has to say about the challenge:
“We want people to have a go, get involved and help us to motivate even more people to get their hands dirty. We’d love to see how people get on with the challenge, as there is nothing more rewarding in gardening than charting the progress of a seed, to a plant, to a vegetable, to the plate!”
Let’s take a look at the contents of the Couch to Five a Day kit.
Couch to Five a Day kit contents
The kit also comes with comprehensive growing instructions which include tips for planting, care and harvesting.
The Couch to Five a Day kit retails at £14.99 including P&P. I think it’s a great way to get started with growing your own food. It takes away all the guesswork around choosing plants and taking care of them, which gives you a much higher chance of success. I also think it would be a perfect grow your own starter kit for children – and I love the fact that it’s designed to suit even the smallest of outdoor spaces too.
Do you think the Couch to Five a Day Challenge could help you have a go at growing your own? Which plant from the kit would you be most excited to grow?
Win a Richard Jackson Garden Couch to Five a Day grow your own kit
I’m giving away five Richard Jackson Couch to Five a Day kits worth £14.99 each. To enter, follow the instructions in the Rafflecopter widget below. Good luck!
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I’m excited about growing Climbing French Bean ‘Cobra’ .
The strawberry, I have never tried growing them before.
Those climbing french beans look amazing. I’d love to grow and cook them for my family.
The French Bean “Cobra” takes my curiosity
The French Bean “Cobra
I have purchased a lovely greenhouse in the last 12 months, so this is all new to me! Just watching my sunflowers growing strong, and my basil is coming through now 🙂 Have three tomato plants from my father-in-law to start me off too. Looking forward to learning so much x
And I would look forward to growing strawberries from the give away 😉 xx
The Climbing French Bean ‘Cobra’
Definitely the French bean but to be honest they all sound fab!
Perpetual Spinach
You had me at strawberries!
Strawberries for me too!
I would love the strawberries kit
The strawberries I love strawberries hmm hmm.
cool
The strawberries!
I would like to grow Tomato ‘Red Profusion’ plug plants.
The sweet pepper as we eat quite a lot of these and I have always wondered about trying to grow them
the sweet pepper as I have grown peppers before but they all got end rot and I didn’t manage to harvest a single one, so I’d like to try again
I would love to grow the strawberries
I am most excited about growing French Beans as they are so delicious.
I am very keen to grow tomatoes as we eat a lot as a family. They taste great and are very versatile in many dishes as well as just to eat fresh from the plant.
peppers would be great
We use a lot of tomatoes, green beans and peppers in our cooking and I have not tried these particular varieties , so it would be great to win one of these kits.
Strawberries.
I would LOVE to grow my own Strawberries!
would love to grow tomatoes
I am excited to grow rye spinach. I love the idea of it just keeping growing and producing more spinach to pick.
My partner and I were only sitting in the (messy) garden this weekend, looking at how we can clean it up. Also my partner’s son is very anxious of late, we want to try and get him out of his room, having been stuck indoors for almost a year glued to a screen. We thought giving him a ‘project’ to focus on, and get him to contribute to something in the home would give him a bit more of a purpose and get him in the fresh air. We’ve identified a little patch of garden to turn over, and just need to make it growing ready, but we really are not gardeners and have no idea what to start with. Tomatoes are a great and hopefully easy starting point, and we’d love to get an outdoor pizza oven…I can only imagine the flavour of home made and home grown pizza base sauces….yum!
The perpetual spinach as I’d hope it would encourage my fussy eater to try some!
I’d love to grow the spinach to add to salads, it’s so much tastier when it’s really fresh.
Not having much luck with tomatoes so would love to try the ‘Red Profusion’ x
Yummy strawberries x
This would be great for all the family to share
The French bean cobra
Perpetual Spinach Sounds like a very useful plant.
I would love to try and get my son interested in growing plants and general gardening. The strawberries would be a good start, he would eat those.
absolutely love this idea – couch to 5 a day – brilliant!!!! I used to have strawberry plants in my garden and loved them but somehow over the years have ended up with none left so I’d love to get some strawberry plants and this time take better care of replanting the runners to keep them going for another few years again.
I’ve always wanted to try growing strawberries
Those French Beans fascinate me…. plus the fact they are so versatile in cookery
Sweet peppers, apart from the fact I stuff them with all sorts of things for lunch – the birds would eat the strawberries before I have time to pick them.
Sweet Peppers as I haven’t grown them before.
would be super excited to grow my own peppers
I have never grown peppers so this would be great to try
I love strawberries but they never taste the same from the shops, often they have very little flavour so I would be most excited to grown my own strawberries, I bet they are bursting with flavour
Must be the strawberries!
Tomatoes
The perpetual spinach would be my choice
The strawberries sound great.
I’ve always wanted to grow strawberries so this would inspire me
The French Bean “Cobra
I would love to grow my own spinach
Id love to have a go at growing the sweet peppers as they are ,y favourite vegetable!
Climbing French Bean ‘Cobra’ seeds look perfect to grow, would love to get my green fingers on!
Definitely the strawberry plant
The strawberries.
Love growing stuff
What a great idea, I would love o grow strawberries because my whole family loves them.
I would love to grow the perpetual spinach – we eat so much of it!
Love the strawberry plant kit
I would love to try growing spinach to prove I’ve the iron determination to do it!
I would really love to try growing the Strawberries
Strawberries ! Irresistible taste c
I’ve just bought a greenhouse for my veg growing! I couldn’t manage to get any fruit on my tomatoes last year so I would love to try these!
I would love to grow my own strawberries
Strawberries, be nice to try and grow my own
Sweet Peppers would be amazing to grow, I love peppers!
The perpetual spinach! I *love* the sound of this kit and the variety of things included….but I am a sucker for spinach
Strawberries
Strawberries would be lovely.
Strawberry ‘Malling Centenary’ bare root plants
I’m most excited to grow the peppers, I love them as a snack, most of our animals can have them and they are great in a lot of dinner we have.
The sweet pepper
I would love to try Sweet Pepper ‘Bendigo. I already grow cherry tomatoes, lettuce and cucumbers, along with a couple of other vegetables, But have never been successful with peppers. As I use peppers for lots of dishes, hoping for more success with this variety.
The Tomato`s –as there my favourite fruit/veg
I would plant the tomatoes first!!
I really want to try to grow some vegetables.
The Strawberry plants
I like the peppers and the perpetual spinach sounds good too.
I would be keen and excited to grow the Tomato ‘Red Profusion’ plug plants, as growing tomatoes as a child, was my introduction to gardening and the joy of growing your own fruit and veg.
Great Idea! certainly encouraged me to give it a go 🙂
Strawberries! My grandchildren want a whole bed of them
sweet peppers i use so many in cooking
I’d love to grow sweet peppers
Winning this lovely lot would inspire me to get some things done in my garden.
French Climbing Beans Cobra…we love these beans
I love strawberries. What a treat to be able to pick my own from the garden
I would be most excited to grow the sweet peppers.
I already use several of Richard’s products and would particularly enjoy the 2 x Sweet Pepper ‘Bendigo’ F1 plug plants as I use peppers a lot in both salads and hot meals.
I love green beans but can’t wait to try the spinach at our allotment!
I would love to be able to grow tomatoes!
I would love to grow the tomatoes.
Oi Oi! I’d love to grow some delicious Pak Choi!
I’m excited to try the tomato red profusion, I love tomatoes
Strawberrys
Definitely the Climbing French Bean ‘Cobra’
Definitely the tomatoes, my daughter loves to grow things and we even had a couple of tomatoes last year
Spinach. I have grown peppers, beans and strawberries before but have not tried spinach yet.
It has to be Sweet Pepper for me
I would love to get a decent crop of the ‘Cobra’ French Beans – to be honest, I’d be a happy with a decent crop of anything. I’ve just started growing veg for the first time this year and get so excited when I see the first shoots of green emerge from the soil!
Sweet Pepper ‘Bendigo’ F1
The sweet peppers but they all look pretty good
I’d love them all but would be most excited to grow the Sweet Pepper ‘Bendigo’ F1 plug plants!
I can’t wait to start this as a new hobby
I would be excited to try The sweet pepper
I would love the strawberries Because my children would love these
With being a beginner for gardening I would love to just grow any veg. I started with potatoes last year and they were a success and it has inspired us.I’d like to give strawberrys a whirl and it would be great to enjoy them with some cream.
I would love to win, fantastic hoby
I would love to try the French beans. The last time we tried growing bean we suffered dreadful blackfly infestations which meant our harvest was very poor.
The peppers would be great, I’ve never tried growing them before
The strawberries! I love eating them so would love to grow.
The tomatoes love the taste of freshly grown tomatoes they taste so much better than shop bought ones , I’m always picking and eating them straight From the plants at my Dad’s, I don’t love to grow my own
Sweet Pepper ‘Bendigo’ F1 plug plants
Sweet Pepper ‘Bendigo’, haven’t tried to grow them before and we eat a lot of them!
I’m most excited about growing Climbing French Bean ‘Cobra’ .
I’m most excited about growing the Climbing French Bean ‘Cobra’ .