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Growing own vegetables is 'here to stay'

11:09:20 3rd September 2010

Growing fruit and vegetables has been on the rise recently and one expert thinks the change is here to stay.

His comments follow suggestions that this is just another temporary craze people will follow for a short while, then abandon when they realise that how much work is involved.

Kris Collins, gardening editor of Amateur Gardening, believes the increase in popularity is due to the proliferation of gardening programs and books.

"They think that the popularity will wane over the next year or so and that it will go back to more formal gardening and people will go back to buying their vegetables from the shops but I don't believe that," he comments.

Recent research from MORE TH>N has shown that garden gnomes are becoming more popular with the 18 to 24 age group, with 16 per cent of those surveyed admitting to owning them.

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