Growing your own food is easy, fun, cheap and healthy! If you’re the impatient type, beans are brilliant as they grow really quickly!

What you will need:
- A large pot or trough
- Soil or peat-free compost
- Bean seeds, choose from French, long, runner or dwarf
- Bamboo canes
- Watering can

What to do:
1. Fill the pot or trough with soil.

2. If you’re using a pot, push four canes into the soil and tie them together at the top to look like a wigwam. If you’re using a trough, push a pair of canes into the soil opposite each other and tie them together at the top. Repeat this along the length of the trough.

3. Make a small hole about 5cm deep either side of a cane. Drop a bean seed into it and cover up with soil. Give the soil a good watering.

4. When the plants start to grow, wind them around the nearest cane.   This will encourage them to grow up the cane.

5. Pick beans as soon as they are a size you’re happy with. Picking them will encourage more beans to grow so you could be harvesting your crop for several weeks!