One of the best decisions we made when we started to grow our own vegetables was picking easy vegetables to grow. UK growing seasons and conditions must be taken into account as well as your tastes.

Swiss chard is an easy vegetable to grow anywhere: a container, in a vegetable garden, or the landscape as an ornamental ...

The easiest way to enjoy vegetables that are chemical-free, fresh as possible and without any packaging is to grow your own. And the only distance they will travel is from your garden to your plate.

Growing your own vegetables at home is one of the most satisfying things you can do, and it's easier than you might think - ...

Root vegetables: These winter garden staples thrive underground, sheltered from the cold. Carrots, slightly sweetened by ...

When to plant cabbage depends on the type you're growing. "Generally, you plant seeds 6 to 8 weeks before the last frost for ...

95% of vegetables love a place where they can be exposed to 7 or 8 hours of sun per day. Under this range, they won’t grow healthily. If there are various spots available around your backyard to place ...

It is easy to grow herbs and vegetable plants in containers. We are in the middle of our vegetable growing season, which began in August, and the plant that I am thinking that everyone could grow ...

George Irvine's latest gardening column looks at the seeds and bulbs you can plant right now to harvest later in the year.

Plant two seeds in each 3-inch pot or several seeds 2 inches apart in a long rectangular container. Once the seedlings reach ...

'If you thrive on a systematic, logical way of growing, then crop rotation is the ideal method to follow,' says Lucie Bradley ...