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Garden - Growing Your Own Food

Repeating Challenge

Grow some vegetables in your garden or on a window ledge.

The Big Ask

Why not start an allotment?

Repeating Challenge

Plant a herb garden – delicious and healthy!

Repeating Challenge

Learn how to garden organically. Garden Organic (formely the HDRA) provide lots of useful advice (www.gardenorganic.org.uk)

One-hit Wonder

Plant a fruit tree or some soft-fruit bushes. If space is tight, plant a miniature tree in a container.

Repeating Challenge

Grow your vegetables from heritage and/or heirloom seeds. These can be obtained from Garden Organic.

One-hit Wonder

Grow some potatoes in a big bucket or in the ground and discover the thrill of eating freshly-dug potatoes: supermarket potatoes will never be the same again!

Repeating Challenge

Don’t use any products that contain peat.

Repeating Challenge

Make your own seedling pots from newspaper with a Paper Potter (available from many sites on the internet).