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Grow healthy food to eat
Delicious nature-friendly food
Growing food in harmony with nature means that wildlife has somewhere to live where your crops grow. It means growing flowers for bees, leaving wild patches for ground beetles and house sparrows, and even sharing your raspberries with the blackbirds, as well as ditching insecticides and weedkillers.
Not sure where to start?
Try easy crops like courgettes, strawberries and climbing beans. Start them off in pots of peat-free compost and plant them out when they have at least four leaves and after all risk of frost has passed from June. You may need to protect them from slugs and snails. Water them every couple of days in dry weather, and feed with an organic tomato food. It won’t be long before you’re harvesting your first home-grown crop!
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Delicious soft fruit
Try some
These grow on trees
Pick One
Contain seeds and grow from a flower
What is this?
These grow underground
Dig in
Tender shoots or broader leaves
Very healthy
Flowering heads and slightly bitter taste
What are these?
The onion family
Don't cry
Edible seeds or pods
Pop a pod
Aromatic plants to flavour dishes
Smell good
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