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55 easy grow your own tips, ideas and resources for beginners

April 8, 2020 by Catherine Leave a Comment

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Are you keen on the idea of growing your own fruit and veg, but a bit daunted about how to do it? Whatever garden space you’ve got, there’s potential to grow and enjoy fresh fruit and veg – and you don’t have to be a gardening pro to do it!

Easy grow your own tips and resources

I’ve rounded up a bumper selection of easy grow your own ideas, tips and resources, suited to all sizes of gardens and perfect for getting started with growing your own fruit and vegetables. Scroll down for online resources, apps and recommended reads too 🙂

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How to get supplies

If you’re struggling to get hold of gardening supplies there are ways to improvise with things you’ve already got. This post has lots of ideas, plus a list of online retailers that are currently still despatching orders.

Tips for growing your own

Fast-growing vegetables to plant now from Growing Family

What to plant each month from Growing Family

How to grow your own when you don’t have lots of space or time for sowing seeds from Janice Shipp’s Plant News

Tips for starting a veg patch for the first time from Craft Invaders

Essential kit for growing seeds from Growing Family

Seed sowing tips from Plews Garden Design

Tips for sowing seeds directly into soil from Janice Shipp’s Plant News

The best vegetables for your soil type from Garden Thyme

Effective watering tips from Growing Family

How to rotate your crops from Plews Garden Design

Composting basics from Rhythms of Play

Grow your own tips for vegans from Plews Garden Design

Tips for preserving your homegrown harvest from Growing Family

Tips for preserving herbs from Growing Family

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Easy grow your own projects

Quick and easy veg to grow from Grow Like Grandad

Quick growing vegetables for small spaces from The Tea Break Gardener

Growing potatoes in bags from Growing Family

The best vegetable varieties to grow from The Middlesized Garden

Grow your own for roof gardens from Catherine Horwood

How to grow garlic from Growing Family

Growing microgreens from Pass the Pistil

Growing salad in containers from Cleeve Nursery

Growing radish from Growing Family

Growing perennial vegetables that provide a constant supply by Jane Perrone

Planting a vertical herb garden from Growing Family

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Grow your own for kids

50 fun ideas to get kids gardening from Growing Family

Tips for sowing seeds with kids from Growing Family

Great fruit and veg to grow with kids from Happiness is Homemade

Making gardening fun for kids from Growing Family

Growing salad from Growing Family

Growing tomatoes from Rhythms of Play

Growing your name in a courgette from Growing Family

The joy of growing your own as a family by Midwife & Life

Ways to encourage kids to eat more fruit and veg from Baby Budgeting

Growing cress caterpillars by Daisies & Pie

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Online grow your own resources

The RHS website is a really good resource for grow your own advice.

There are lots of great growing guides on the Gardener’s World website.

Westland and Suttons have fruit and vegetable growing guides.

There’s a handy vegetable seed sowing calendar at Thompson & Morgan.

Garden Tags also have lots of how-to guides.

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Grow your own video resources

Gardener’s World

GrowVeg

The Skinny Jean Gardener

She Grows Veg

UK Here We Grow

Epic Gardening

Thompson & Morgan

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Grow your own apps

RHS Grow Your Own app

Suttons Fruit & Veg Planting Guide app

Candide Gardening app

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Great grow your own books

*RHS Grow your own veg & fruit year planner

*Veg in One Bed

*RHS Grow your own crops in pots

*How to Get Kids Gardening

*RHS Grow Your Own for Kids

*RHS Grow For Flavour

I hope this list gives you lots of grow your own ideas, and inspires you to give growing your own fruit and veg a try. Happy planting!

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