GROWING your own food is fun, rewarding and a great activity to do with kids.
Depending on how bountiful your crop is, planting food can also save you cash.
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Here are four things to grow to feast on later this year . . .
SPUDS: Potatoes are versatile and growing your own is easy if you have a little outdoor soil to spare.
This can be done with potatoes from the supermarket – leave spuds somewhere warm to sprout shoots then plant them around 12cm deep.
But it’s better to use specialist seed potatoes. A 2kg pack of Maris Pipers is £3 from Wilko.
TOMATOES: If you don’t have a garden or enough outdoor space to spare, bush tomatoes can be grown in pots or growing bags.
Poundshop.com sells growing bags with handles for £1.
Wilko has a great variety of seeds to choose from with packs starting from a snip at 75p.
Sow a few in a small pot, water well and keep on a warm windowsill.
As the seedlings get bigger, transfer them to larger pots.
After about a month, you should be able to move the plants to your compost-filled growing bag.
Continue to water regularly and pick your tomatoes as soon as they are ripe.
COURGETTES: You only need a couple of plants to get a bumper crop.
Sow courgette seeds in pots of compost indoors now and transfer the plants outside from mid-May at around 90cm apart.
Water regularly. They will be ready to harvest between July and October.
STRAWBERRIES: These don’t need much space to grow.
It can be difficult to grow strawberries from seed, so buying shoots, give you a greater chance of success.
Your local garden centre should have runners available for less than £10.
To plant them you’ll need a deep pot with drainage. Keep them in a sunny spot and water regularly.
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