Grow your own food
Tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers under glass; cabbage, carrots and beans out in the beds; herbs on the windowsill and fruit from a pot or a patio tree. This is the grow-your-own side of Plantvale - pick a crop to see what it gives you, the space and effort it takes, and how to sow, grow, harvest and store it.
🍅 Fruiting crops open page →
Tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, zucchini - the greenhouse and summer stars.
🥬 Leafy greens & brassicas open page →
Cabbage, kale, broccoli, lettuce, spinach - the productive backbone of the plot.
🥬 Intermediate Cabbage
🥦 Advanced Cauliflower
🥦 Intermediate Broccoli
🥗 Beginner Lettuce
🍃 Beginner Spinach
🥬 Beginner Kale
🌿 Advanced Celery
🥬 Beginner Kohlrabi
🥬 Intermediate Brussels Sprouts
🌱 Beginner Rhubarb
🥬 Beginner Swiss Chard
🥬 Beginner Pak Choi
🥬 Beginner Rocket
💧 Intermediate Watercress
🥗 Intermediate Endive
🥕 Roots & alliums open page →
Carrots, beets, radishes, onions, garlic and potatoes - the storage crops.
🥕 Intermediate Carrots
🫐 Beginner Beetroot
🔴 Beginner Radishes
🧅 Beginner Onions
🧄 Beginner Garlic
🥔 Beginner Potatoes
🧅 Intermediate Leeks
🟣 Beginner Turnips
🥕 Intermediate Parsnips
🌿 Intermediate Asparagus
🌱 Beginner Spring Onions
🍠 Intermediate 🏠 Sweet Potato
🧅 Beginner Shallots
🥔 Beginner Swede
🌿 Intermediate Celeriac
🫛 Legumes open page →
Peas and beans - productive, and they feed the soil as they grow.
🌿 Herbs open page →
Basil, mint, rosemary, thyme, sage and more - the flavour of the garden.
🍓 Fruit open page →
Strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and patio trees - homegrown fruit for small spaces.
🌰 Nuts & seeds open page →
Hazelnuts and walnuts for patient growers, plus quick peanuts and sunflower seeds.
Grew more than you can eat? Preserve it
A glut is a good problem. Pickle the cucumbers, can the tomatoes, ferment the cabbage into sauerkraut, and freeze or dry the rest - our preserving section turns a summer surplus into food for the whole winter.
How to preserve the harvest →