Plan a vegetable garden this Christmas

More and more people are including fruit and vegetables in their gardens as they experience the superior taste and health benefits of home grown food. But growing vegetables has traditionally needed more experience than picking out plants from a garden centre. Many crops need to be grown from seed, spaced correctly and ‘rotated’ in groups to prevent the build-up of pests or loss of soil nutrients.

Christmas is the perfect time to plan a vegetable garden or allotment for the coming year and GrowVeg.com has come up with the perfect gift: Subscription Gift Vouchers which give the gardener a perfectly planned vegetable patch. A GrowVeg.com subscription makes it easy to work out what to plant, where to plant it and when to do so. Each Gift Voucher enables the gardener to build a personalised interactive plan of their garden using the unique Garden Planning Tool.

Gardeners simply sketch out their growing space then add vegetables to it by clicking and dropping them onto the area. An intuitive colour-coded circle around each plant shows how much space it requires and which crops to keep together. Plants can easily be rearranged by dragging them into another location until the perfect layout is achieved for their own plot.

Once the vegetable patch is planned GrowVeg.com will send email reminders twice a month listing which vegetables need sowing or planting out. A complete list of plants and their spacing can quickly be printed giving a useful summary of what to buy, when to plant and when to harvest. Plenty of information on the likes and dislikes of each vegetable is built in including which plants to sow together and how much water, feeding and maintenance they require.

Gift vouchers are available for one or two year subscriptions to the Garden Planning Tool costing just £15 and £25 respectively. Vouchers are sent in an exclusive GrowVeg.com card or by email with a personalised message to the recipient. With a perfectly planned vegetable patch a GrowVeg.com Gift Certificate is sure to be remembered right through the year!