Grow Your Own

Grow-Your-Own peps up your love life according to The Edible Garden Show survey Growing your own fruit and veg is not only good for your health – it also puts a zing into your love life and the relationships you share with those closest to you. Nine out of ten people who took part in a survey about the impact of “grow your own” on their lives said they felt it improved their relationships with loved ones. Ten out of ten said they feel healthier by growing and eating their own food. Far from escaping the other half to head down to the allotment, seven out of ten people said they and their partner grow their own together and it… Read More

Don’t let anyone tell you not to grow potatoes – especially main crop potatoes! There is a trend, these days, and a little thought out one at that. The theory goes like this – potatoes are cheap in the shops, and therefore there is no real reason to buy them. People say, “Grow something else instead.” Try sweet potatoes instead” – a good idea too, growing sweet potatoes, but not at the expense of good old fashioned ‘King Edwards’ and a good few rows of ‘Home Guard’. So, why is not growing main crop potatoes a bad idea? First of all the taste The best reason of them all! You simply cannot buy main crop potatoes from the supermarkets that… Read More

Poultry will be even higher up the pecking order at The Edible Garden Show next year as Britain is witnessing the biggest revival in hen-keeping since the Second World War with 700,000 people flocking to keep chickens to beat the recession. The British Hen Welfare Trust has reported an 80 per cent growth in people keeping poultry over the past three years. In the meantime chicken coop suppliers have seen sales rocket as more people go that ‘egg-stra’ mile to becoming more self-sufficient. As supermarkets roll-out their own-brand range of chicken coops for the general public, the  UK’s first-ever national show dedicated to the grow-your-own phenomenon is stepping up to meet the growing consumer demand for practical help on keeping… Read More

Just five months after the successful launch of The Edible Garden Show, the first-ever national event dedicated to grow-your-own fruit and vegetables, organisers are on course to deliver their promise that the 2012 exhibition will be bigger and even better! Almost the same number of exhibitors which attended the launch event in March have signed up for 2012 while The Edible Garden Show sales team is talking to numerous other exhibitors poised to join the three-day gardening extravaganza. This year’s event attracted nearly 11,000 visitors to Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire, packing out the exhibition hall with many trade stands needing to replenish stocks to keep pace with the demand for products. The Edible Garden Show’s Events Director Bev Channell says: “We… Read More

Consumer watchdog Which? has confirmed what The Edible Garden Show organisers have known for a long time – more people are joining the grow-your-own revolution to save money and lead healthier lives. A Which? report has revealed one in four people now grow edible crops to cope with rocketing food and fuel prices. Researchers also found consumers were turning to home-grown produce so they could eat healthily. In the consumer magazine’s online survey of over 1,000 people, 59 per cent said they had turned to growing their own because “increases in food prices mean I’m trying to be more economical”. A third said their main reason for becoming more self-sufficient was because they were “trying to eat more healthily”. Meanwhile… Read More