Eating 5 servings of fresh fruit and vegetables a day is good for us, according to modern research they help us in the fight against high cholesterol, colon cancer, and osteoporosis. Growing your own vegetables is fairly easy, a healthy, cost saving and a rewarding experience but what should you grow?

Consider what your family likes to eat, if they love pumpkin, then plant them, the most satisfying part of gardening can be the rewards of others loving what you produce, so produce what they like.

Determine what space you have again, you need a little room to grow pumpkins, so if space is limited, maybe try something else. Consider container grown plants or dwarf varieties.

Try somethong new each season, have you considered growing Yacon or 'Peruvian Ground Apple', you may not find them in the shops, but they are great.

With more and more concern about healthy food and rising food costs we aim to provide you with the knowledge and confidence to grow your own vegetables. Along with new ideas about how to grow vegetables we hope to provide easy access to suppliers of vegetable seeds, seedlings seed potatoes and tubers, heritage vegetables, hard to find varieties and new releases.

Try a home made climbing pea or bean trellis, looks great, costs next to nothing and works.