Roots are, well, the root of good plant health! When you give roots a healthy start, your plants are much more likely to be able to survive drought, heat, cold, poor soil and disease - everything your veg plot could throw at it. 
This sowing season, we're looking at how to give roots the best possible start using boosters, root trainers, Jiffy Pellets, soil testing equipment and more! 

Watch our step-by-step guide for potting up courgette/zucchini seedlings.

Gardening Angel Paul plants out some young F1 Hybrid Jumbo sweet peppers in our award-winning Quadgrow planter.

Gardening Angel Paul can’t wait for his Romanesco Courgettes, sown in jiffy propagation pellets, to germinate. This variety is considered one of the best for flavour, so we’ll be queuing to sample them! Watch Paul sow these super seeds.

Our Gardening Angel has been super busy growing lots of veg in our Vivigrow Planter. We are growing Courgette (which has lots of yellow fruit), Cucumber, Squash and Red Star Watermelon which is a cold tolerance variety which is starting to produce fruit.

Our Gardening Angels have transplanted our first batch of tomato plants after 10 weeks in to our Solar Quadgrow Planter. This year we are growing Kalimba, Cristal, Olivade, San marzano. This super-charged version of our best selling Quadgrow Planter is perfect for anyone looking for a huge harvests.

Watch our Gardening Angel Paul sowing Cabbage seeds

We’re growing samphire. This salt water loving veg (it grows in estuaries and along shorelines) has gone from zero to hero in the past year and demand is expected to outstrip supply next year, with a whopping 500,000 servings predicted to be sold. So, I’m not taking my chances, I’m going to grow it.

I’d never heard of samphire until this year and now I can’t escape it, which is fine because it’s absolute delicious with a distinctive crisp and salty taste. I’ve seen it at just about every food fair and farmers market and it keeps popping up at restaurants.