LOVE IT

You don’t need an allotment or a garden the size of a small country to enjoy all the benefits of growing your own veg, especially with this potato-growing kit, £40 (lazyflora.com).

Not only do you grow tasty crops, but you are reducing your food miles down to metres. It includes a 40-litre fabric planter, five seed potatoes, 30 litres of compost plus planting instructions. You will be knocking out chips from your own homegrown spuds before you know it. It makes a great activity to do with the kids, too.