Millbrook helps you take control of what you eat.

There are few things as satisfying as eating delicious fresh fruit and vegetables especially when you have grown them yourself. There is also nothing more important to our well being than watching what we eat,  after all “You are what you eat” and when you grow your own you know exactly where it's been and what you've done to it!

Talk to anyone who grows their own fruit and veg and one of the first things they will say is the taste is so much better than anything you will buy in the supermarket.
This is because it takes so little time for home grown produce to travel from the ground to your plate. In some cases shop bought fruit and veg has been grown on the other side of the world, it’s been picked, kept in cold store, washed in chlorine to get rid of bacteria and then treated with preservatives to prolong shelf life. No wonder it doesn’t taste fresh by the time it reaches your table!

Growing your own allows you to control the environment in which the plants grow and gives you an ideal opportunity to do away with chemicals and pesticides. It also gives you the chance to experiment with new and unusual varieties and minimise waste as you are able to pick just what you need for the meal ahead. Growing your own fruit and veg will also be a great help in making sure you are eating your Five-A-Day quota and is an ideal way to encourage children to eat fresh food.

At Millbrook we can help whether you are blessed with green fingers or having a go for the very first time. 

Here we look at

• Way to grow1 - Growing from seed

• Way to grow 2 - Getting ahead with young plants

• Way to grow  3 - Ready to go! Millbrook’s fantastic new Growing Your Own range of fruit and veg