Grow one fruit or veg crop this season

Grow one fruit or veg crop this season 

Growing your own food is a powerful way to reconnect with where your food comes from, whilst making a positive impact on the planet, improving your own health and benefiting local wildlife too. 

Whether you have an allotment plot, a garden, or barely any space at all, everyone can grow something at home.

Spring is a busy time for farmers and home-growers, as warmer weather and longer days makes it perfect for planting! Here's a few recommendations for planting and propagating:

Beetroot: start sowing your summer crop of beetroot outside from March onwards

Spinach: sow from early spring to the middle of June

Kale: sow in April or May

Onion & shallots: get planting outside as soon as the last frost has passed

Radish: sow outside

Carrots: plant outside in loose, sandy soil in early spring to harvest in the autumn

Courgette & squash: autumn veg you can begin to sow indoors

Leeks: sow outside for harvesting from September onwards

A few tips to get you started:

Planting in pots help you get back to your roots wherever you are, especially if you're living in rented properties. They don’t have to live outside either; ‘container growing’ opens up a whole indoor experience of fruit, veg and fungi-growing possibilities, all of which will have a wonderful world of microbiology living within their soils.

Visiting or volunteering at your neighbourhood community garden veg patch is a great way to connect with your food if there's no space at home.

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