Potatoes are very easy to grow in your garden, and if you plant a new batch every few weeks, you’ll have a steady supply of these nutritious, versatile vegetables in the months ahead. The potato plant produces attractive flowers which eventually die back when the tubers are ready to be harvested.

Step-by-step guide to growing your own potatoes

• Go to your local grocery store and choose a few healthy-looking potatoes with “eyes”. These will become your “seed potatoes”, which are planted to produce more tubers.
• Plant seed potatoes in well composted soil, 10cm deep and 30cm apart. Water well.

Cherry tomatoes are available in many colours and varieties, and range in size from as small as a peanut, to as big as a golf ball. They are an excellent fruit to grow with your children as they grow quickly and are easy for little fingers to pick once they have ripened.

Step-by-step guide to growing your own cherry tomatoes :

• Sow cherry tomato seeds in full sun in well composted soil. Make sure that the seeds you buy are suitable for garden cultivation and do not require a greenhouse environment.
• Sow seeds 0.5cm deep and lightly pat down the soil over the seeds. Insert support stakes for the plants when you sow the seeds as this will prevent damage to the young plants that could occur when inserting stakes at a later stage.