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Grow your own fruit and vegetables
 Growing your own fruit and vegetables is a healthy, economical and fun way to cut your carbon footprint. You don't even need a garden; a window box or a tub on a windowsill is enough to get you started, and before long you could be enjoying delicious home-grown flavours while saving money on herbs, seasonal veg and fresh fruits. Gardening is a healthy and fun way for the whole family to get active together and it will also teach children where fresh seasonal produce comes from. As well as making a saving on your food bill, you'll be helping to save the environment too. In the home Take an empty yoghurt pot, some earth and some seeds and you can start a herb garden on a windowsill. With a window box you could extend your range to lettuces; a small balcont and your in business with Tomatoes! In the garden Even a small garden can produce barrow-loads of beans and pounds of potatoes. If you love your flowers too much to lose them, plant your produce between the blooms. Or maybe a less green-fingered neighbour will let you use their garden in return for a share of the harvest? Need more space? Many towns and cities will have a community garden scheme, or try Landshare, which matches spare land to growers. You could even think about renting an allotment, especially now the National Trust is offering allotments on its land. Composting Composting is the perfect way to cut CO2 emissions while helping to get the most out of your garden. Your local council may help you get a composter, and then garden waste like grass cuttings and hedge trimmings can go on the compost heap rather than to the dump. Vegetable waste from your kitchen, even organic matter like egg boxes, can all be composted, helping your garden grow while saving the greenhouse emissions that it takes to transport them to the landfill site.
Kids Gardening Teaching kids about gardening is a great way to instill respect for the earth and also sneak in a little biology lesson. Whether you have a yard, or patio, you can still grow fresh foods. The smallest spaces can be used for potted herbs and tomatoes. For your patio, buy herb seedlings each spring and fill 1-2 pots with lavender, basil, parsley, thyme and cilantro. Great for homecooking! And they smell great. Growing your own fruit and vegetables is something fun you can do with friends and family. People of all ages can grow their own food. Children will love to help planting and harvesting food, and there are plenty of thriving allotment communities that will happily welcome you and help you learn the best methods of growing your own. Once you have started growing your own, you will not want to stop. Growing your own food will bring you more in tune with nature and real, natural food. It will make you healthier and happier, and open up a whole new world of flavour. __________________________________________________________ Grow Your Own Fruit and Vegatables in Plot, Pots or Growbags Lets Grow Your Own has everything you need. Grow your own kits, Garden tools, greenhouses, coldframes, seeds and much more.
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