Growing your own vegetables is a wonderful way to relax and get back in touch with nature whilst growing your own delicious food.

You don’t need to sacrifice beauty for substance - Catrina Saunders, Head Gardener at The Courts in Wiltshire - tells us the best vegetables to grow for a good-looking garden.

	Swiss Chard Beautiful and easy to grow - planting Rainbow Chard will bring your garden alive with a mix of orange, red and yellow stems
	Kale Red Russian or Redbor are really attractive plants with lightly crinkled, frilly, oak-like, slate-green leaves and unusual deep purple veins that intensify in colour as winter approaches
	Strawberries The tumbling kind look really pretty trailing up trellises. Picked at the height of ripeness, the taste of home-grown strawberries is a world apart from their supermarket counterparts
	Runner beans The Painted Lady variety was originally grown for its flowers, until someone tried the delicious pods
	Tomatoes Plant dwarf tomatoes like Totem, Red Robin or Tumbling Tom Red amongst a few basil plants to create a mini Italy in the garden during summertime
	Pumpkins As the pumpkin grows, you’ll see lovely yellow flowers and by October, when the nights are setting in, your garden will come alive with Autumnal shades of orange