| for easy vegetables to grow? It seems most people | | | | pests you can be sure that you will have plenty of |
| are trying to eat healthier food, however, with the | | | | lettuce to make salads out of. |
| increasing cost of food it can be difficult to afford to | | | | Cherry tomatoes are another common ingredient for |
| eat well. If you are truly dedicated to improving your | | | | salads and other dishes alike. Cherry tomatoes are |
| diet with more healthy foods you may want to think | | | | pretty easy to grow. While you can grow them from |
| about starting your own vegetable garden. | | | | seed it is often easier to visit your local garden |
| By growing your own vegetables you can pick and | | | | centre to pick up young tomato plants. These can be |
| choose what you would like to include in your diet. | | | | planted either into fertile soil or into grow bags on |
| Additionally, you will save yourself a lot of money by | | | | your patio or against a wall. Tomatoes like sun and |
| growing your own veggies. However, one thing that | | | | warmth so place them on a south facing wall or in |
| you do not want is to choose veg. that are difficult | | | | the open to ensure big healthy crops of ripe fruits. |
| to grow. Instead, you want to plant crops that will | | | | Potatoes are a root vegetable that grows well in |
| flourish easily and that will make it successfully from | | | | home vegetable gardens. These are best grown |
| your garden to your table. | | | | from bought disease free seed tubers as potatoes |
| Radishes are a very easy vegetable to grow | | | | suffer many diseases. All that you need to do is |
| — great for kids too. They are quick to grow | | | | place these in a trench so that you can surround |
| and can be pulled and used straight away; perfect to | | | | them with soil and later earth up. Take care when |
| eat on their own for a tasty treat, or to add a | | | | growing potatoes as you need to water them quite |
| wonderful crunch, flavour and colour to salads. | | | | frequently to ensure good growth. |
| Speaking of salads one of the most popular and easy | | | | Lastly, carrots are another wonderfully colorful root |
| vegetables to grow is lettuce. The great thing about | | | | vegetable that come in all sort colours and shapes. |
| lettuce is that you can plant it at almost any point in | | | | Watch out for carrot root fly as these can destroy |
| the season. You need to be careful as lettuce is very | | | | your lovely carrots with their black tunnels. However, |
| appealing to slugs to munch on. However, if you take | | | | a simple 40-50cm barrier of plastic/ fleece around |
| care to protect your crops against these voracious | | | | your carrots wll protect them. |