Check your weekly shopping receipt and chances are you'll feel a little uncomfortable about the ever-increasing price of fresh fruit and vegetables. We're always told to eat healthily and enjoy a wide range of colourful foods - i.e. yellow peppers, green beans, red tomatoes, pink radishes...but how can the average family afford to enjoy the 'healthy rainbow' of nutrients when food prices just keep on creeping up?
One solution (aside from resigning yourself to a life of bread and butter!) is to try growing your own fruit and veg. This doesn't have to be complicated or time consuming either - growing your own plants to produce food is simply a matter of exercising good care whilst creating the right growing conditions.
Over the coming weeks we'll be telling you more about how to get started with growing your own - from setting up a few pots of tomato plants outside the back door, to digging up your own harvest of potatoes.
However and whatever you choose to grow, chances are it will taste much better than the packaged veg you picked up from the supermarket - and you'll feel extra satisfied by the thought you grew it all yourself!
This fun little film demonstrates how even someone with a small back yard can cultivate all manner of wonderful foods to tuck into:
