According the RHS, the gardening trends for 2024 are planet friendly gardens which help your well being and there is still a strong growth in the Grow Your Own Vegetables field.

My thoughts on Vegetable Garden Trends for 2024

Whilst researching the internet, I can see what is making people passionate this year when it comes to Growing Vegetables. So here’s an insight in what I think is on trend for 2024.

My Top 5 Vegetable Growing Trends for 2024

1. Arches

Growing squash, pumpkin or beans and peas up and over an arch in your vegetable garden or allotment.

You’ll need a strong arch that’s able to be buried deep in the soil and a strong support mesh, if you will be growing a heavy vegetable like squash or pumpkin.

Many Allotment holders were recommending this arch from Amazon but saying it rusted after a year or so. It is quite cheap at £11.99 to replace if required. It does need to be buried deep in the soil for stability.

Black Metal Garden Arch from Amazon

Here’s some inspiration if you are thinking about adding an archway to your vegetable garden.

• Building a Walk Through Vegetable Arch by Vegplotter
• Easy DIY Utility Panel Garden Arch by Handmade Farmhouse.
• How to make a Garden Arch from Reinforced Mesh by Connie & Luna
• Video – Growing Squash Vertically with Inexpensive Arch by Homegrown.garden

If you can’t add an arch, why not try a 🫛 Pea Wall to gain height into the vegetable garden.

• Grow your own Pea Wall by The Purposeful You – a vertical solution to keep your peas from spreading out.
• Video – Pea Wall by Seattle Urban Farm Company

2. Adding Flowers to the Vegetable Garden

This is not a new idea but we all know that we need pollinators for our vegetables to produce a decent harvest.

I planted a bright coloured flower in one of the corners of each of my four raised bed and it really lifted the visual element of the vegetable garden. The idyllic view is always sitting among the garden whilst bees are buzzing round and they will be pollinating your vegetables too.

I’ll be sowing a number of bee & insect friendly 🌻🌼 🌸 flowers this year to plant amongst my vegetables.

Flowers like marigolds and some herbs help with pest control. 🌺 Flowers in the Vegetable Garden that attract wildlife.

⭐️ Top Tip – Sow some marigolds in pots so that you can move the pot to the problem pest plant that needs some help, it’s a sort of portable pest control. Read my Marigolds and The Ring of Steel round Tomatoes.

Here is a great article from Azure Farm on

• Top 23 Flowers and Herbs for Pest Control in the Garden.

3. Growing Indoors in Smart Gardens

We have had the houseplant trend but now there is a real trend to grow your own vegetables and herbs indoors under grow lights in Smart Gardens.

The horticulture market seem to have exploded with desktop kitchen units which have an all in one growing ecosystem.

They include little plugs, a water tank and a grow light. There are even growing units the size of a bookcase or mini greenhouse you can start off your seedlings in, if you have the room.

Here’s some inspiration on growing vegetables indoors:

Please note I have not bought from any of the following companies and I suggest you check their worthiness on TrustPilot or similar review sites before buying.

The products below are being used as an inspiration to growing indoors.

• Gathera – have a sun shelf which looks quite impressive and a terra garden.
• Aero Garden – have a range of desktop growing solutions for all budgets.
• West Kent – have a smart indoor garden which is self watering and grows all year round and is reasonably priced.

4. Modern Indoor Composters

With the Councils putting up the price to tip waste, there must be a way of helping your vegetable garden and using food waste to your advantage.

Wormeries have come along way since 10 years ago and now you can have a modern, bright little box on legs in your garden or indoors. These are great for rooftops, balconies and small gardens.

Check out the Wriggly Wrigglers Urban Live Worm Composter kits for more information.

More Information on:

• 🪱 Wormeries – breaking down food waste with worms.
• Bokashi Composters – an indoor composter using fermentation process with bacteria.

5. Bee & Insect Houses

Learn more about Bees 🐝 and how they benefit your garden in The Wildlife Trusts Free Wildbee Action Pack

🔍 Identify Bees in your garden with The Wildlife Trusts Bee ID chart.

🐝 Bee and insect 🐞 houses are now available for all budgets.

• An excellent basic bee-house starts at £4.99 – Honeycomb Yellow Beehouse from The Range
• Paint your own Bee and Insect House £8 from Hobbycraft. See our Kids Craft Project here.
• Dewdrop Bee & Bug hotel £22.99 by The Eden Project shop

Other Let’s Grow Together Links:

• Wildlife Trust Online Short Courses
• All About Bees – World Bee Day
• Growing is good for the mind and soul, Video Lapse, Bonsai & Nutrition
• Getting Children into Gardening – Free downloads
• Recipes for Vegetable Gluts
• Nature Artists