grow your own fruit and veg

What you'll need

• All-Purpose Compost or a Vegetable & Fruit Giant Planter
• Container or location to plant into the ground - pots, troughs, containers, a dedicated space or flowerbed. Anywhere that gets good sunlight and that your plants will have room to grow and spread their roots. We've even seen herbs in big biscuit tins!
• Seeds or Young Plants
• Fruit & Veg Plant Food
• Fork & Trowel

Step 1

Decide where you’re going to start your vegetable patch. Any unused corner of your garden will do as long as it is not in deep shade. You can also use pots near well-lit windowsills or on balconies. 

Step 2

Once you've chosen the spot, it's time to get the soil ready.

If you're using pots or containers, start to fill them just over halfway with the planter soil, breaking up any lumps you might find.

If you're using a patch of bed or soil outside, break up the soil surface with a fork and fill with the compost and the contents of the planter. The Performance Organics range contains organic plant food and the perfect soil conditions to help your plants get the essential nutrients they need.

Step 3

Now you’re ready to get planting. Choose a selection of fruit and vegetables that you enjoy eating and plant as per the on-pack instructions - whether seeds or young plants.

Step 4

The compost will keep all plants fed for up to six weeks, but after that, you’ll need to give them a top-up with Fruit & Veg Plant Food.

In no time at all, you’ll be harvesting your own tasty home-grown fruit and vegetables!

Top tip

Don’t forget the flowers! Marigolds planted in among vegetables will help ward off pests and attract beneficial insects, while nasturtiums will make your plants look attractive and you can eat the flowers in salads.