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To help you get growing, the nation’s biggest gardening stores and organisations have all teamed up here in one place. Here you’ll find perfect products, special offers and starter kits that make growing a snip. Explore them below. Or sign up to our newsletter to be instantly notified when we launch great new deals.

Explore the Top Ten easiest fruit and veg to grow at Dobbies

Visit Dobbies garden centres up and down the country for expert advice on how to grow our Top Ten easiest to grow fruit and veg. There’s also a great new section on their website packed with helpful information.

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40% off this great kids gardening book

Packed with over 50 project ideas and recipes, Kids in the Garden encourages children to learn about gardening, healthy eating and caring for the environment in a simple and engaging way. With easy to follow, step-by-step instructions, colourful photography and fun illustrations, Kids in the Garden will appeal to children of all ages and their parents. Covering a range of gardening topics such as harvesting seasons, encouraging wildlife in your garden, growing plants from seed, and the water cycle, Kids in the Garden is ideal for any inquisitive youngster, whether already green-fingered or a complete gardening novice. Click here to place your order with a 40% discount.

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Take the One Pot Pledge

The One Pot Pledge is an exciting new grow your own campaign from Garden Organic. Their aim is to get 30,000 people who have never grown anything before to give growing a go. Growing your own food can be fun, it tastes great and you don’t even need a garden – one pot on a window ledge is all you need to get started. Taking part is easy. If you’ve not grown your own before then make the pledge and choose to grow one of Garden Organic’s recommended vegetables – you’ll find most of them in our Top Ten Easiest Fruit and Veg to Grow. If you have grown before but want to help others you can give help and advice as a Veg Doctor, recruiting new growers and helping them make their first attempt a success.

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RHS launch Grow Your Own iPhone app

The new Grow Your Own iPhone app from the Royal Horticultural Society is designed to help you choose the fruit and vegetables that will be best suited for you to grow. It helps you choose plants for your garden based on key criteria (space/time/expertise) and gives you the chance to access expert advice from the RHS while you are out and about. Works with iPhone or iPod Touch.

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Build Your Own Community Growing Scheme

The Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens provides support and advice for groups wishing to set up community spaces to grow their own fruit and veg. They’ll be offering some basic guidance for free to Eat Seasonably users wishing to set up their own community garden and linking up with Channel4’s Landshare initiative to support people who want to set something up themselves.

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Grow Your Own with Suttons

Suttons have launched a brand new section on their website especially for new veg growers. They have recommendations on the best easy to grow varieties of tomatoes, carrots and lots more easy to grow fruit and vegetables. They have also included a ‘New Veg Growers’ section which will feature ‘Back to Basics’ instructions on how to grow from seed, how much to water your plants and other frequently asked questions.

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Get composting with Recycle Now!

Recycle Now offers compost bins at great prices, through partnerships with local authorities. So why not resolve to be a green gardener and get composting at home? In a landfill tip vegetable peelings and garden waste cause powerful gases to be released into the atmosphere. Using your own compost will improve your soil and aide the growth of your plants, making your flowers bloom and your fruit and vegetables nutritious and delicious. People wanting more information about how to purchase a compost bin at a great price or just needing clear information on how to make and use compost should click the link below:

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Make your windowsill delicious with microgreens

Sow Gourmet are dedicated to bringing enjoyable, mess-free urban gardening to the masses. Sign up to receive a monthly microgreen growing pack complete with sustainably sourced, recyclable microgreenhouse and seasonable microgreen seeds – all for the price of a pint! Microgreens have been used in top restaurants, by innovative chefs for years. Known as a ‘functional food’, the high levels of concentrated active compounds found in microgreens mean they are also highly nutritious. If you water them and keep them on a bright windowsill you can have ready to eat microgreens in as little as 10 days time!

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Plant the seeds for fun, healthy, green lives (with a 15% discount!)

New Eat Seasonably partner Secret Seed Society take children on a growing adventure with vegetables. Set in Seed City (populated by curious vege-beings), the veg-tastic stories take kids on the grow your own journey from planting seeds to munching their own home grown treats. Children who are growing, cooking and eating their veg share their learnings and seasonal fun through the SSS monthly e-newsletter and website, by signing up to be a Seed Agent. If you know a child who would be a good candidate for Full Seed Agent membership (5 story and seed packs, certificate and regular letters), click here to receive 15% off.

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40% off a selection of seasonal food books

Publishers Random House are offering Eat Seasonably friends 40% off a selection of their seasonal food books. From children’s books on growing to in depth guides to what’s in season when, there’s something for everyone. Click here and enter promo code EATSEASONABLY before making a purchase.

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Grow it, cook it, eat it

Visit Freshly Forked for premium kitchen and garden tools, smart storage solutions, innovative gadgets, nifty accessories and stylish gifts. Freshly Forked is a refreshing alternative to other online shops, placing a stronger focus on quality, practicality and seasonal significance. In keeping with the seasons, we are growing and constantly up-dating our site with the latest new products and innovations. Why not join our mailing list to keep up-to-date with the latest new additions and news?

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Get 10% off expert organic gardening advice and great gardening gear!

If you’re looking to green up your garden, chat to other like-minded organic gardeners and get sustainable solutions to your gardening problems then take advantage of this exclusive offer:

Garden Organic, the UK’s leading experts on organic growing, are offering 10% off their full membership to all Eat Seasonably friends

Membership benefits include:

Welcome pack with membership card, free seeds, organic guides, and leaflets
10% discount on all orders from The Organic Gardening catalogue
Free subscription to Garden Organic’s own magazine The Organic Way (quarterly)
Free access to expert advice on organic gardening
Discounts on Garden Organic courses and workshops
Free access to Garden Organic's gardens at Ryton, Warwickshire and Audley End, Essex
Free or discounted entry to more than 20 gardens around the UK
Exclusive members' area of the website

To claim your 10% discount on this exceptional package please call 024 7630 8210, quoting discount code SEASON09.

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40% off fun guide to growing

Growing Stuff: An Alternative Guide to Gardening is a vibrant and quirky guide for anyone wishing to transform their outdoor space. Packed with illustrations and focusing on the fun aspects of gardening, Growing Stuff is a refreshing alternative to traditional gardening books and a stylish guide to bringing nature to the city. Growing Stuff ’s engaging and simple project ideas come from a diverse range of contributors—from enthusiastic amateurs, to professional horticulturists and creative practitioners, including Richard Reynolds, founder of London’s Guerrilla Gardening community who explains how to make seed bombs. Other projects include: Plant a Living Salad; Build Your Own Polytunnel; Preserve your Root Vegetables and Sow your own Lavender Pillows. Click here to place your order today with a fantastic 40% off.

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