The Growers Academy — Learn to Grow Your Own Veg
🌿 By Glen at Veggie Patch Ideas

Learn to grow your own veg. The fun way.

Bite-sized lessons, daily challenges and a problem solver — everything a UK grower needs, completely free in one interactive app.

🚀 Start Growing — It’s Free
37
Lessons
30+
Badges
6
Courses
Free
To join
Growers Academy lesson screen
Growers Academy lesson screen
The lessons

Easy to follow. Bite-sized. Always free.

Every lesson is designed to fit around your day — clear, practical and no waffle. Work through them in order or dip in wherever you need help most.

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5–10 minutes per lesson
Short enough to squeeze in with your morning coffee. Long enough to actually learn something.
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Track every lesson you complete
Tick off lessons as you go, earn XP and watch your progress bar fill up.
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Completely free — no ad pop-ups
The app itself is completely ad-free. Just you, your plot, and Glen’s growing knowledge.
Free Access

Join the Growers Academy 🌱

Get instant access to the full app — step-by-step growing guides built for UK veg patch gardeners.

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🥦UK-focused
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🔓Free
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You’re in — welcome to the Academy!

Follow the steps below to get the app on your device.

📱 iPhone
🤖 Android
💻 Desktop
The curriculum

Six courses. One growing season.

Start from the ground up or jump straight to what you need. Each course builds real growing knowledge.

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Getting Started
6 lessons · Beginner
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Growing Your First Crops
7 lessons · Beginner
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Intermediate Growing
7 lessons · Intermediate
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Plot Management
6 lessons · Intermediate · Premium
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Advanced Techniques
6 lessons · Advanced · Premium
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Year-Round Growing
5 lessons · Advanced · Premium
A message from the host and creator

Welcome to The Growers Academy

Let’s make veg growing accessible to everyone 🌱

30+ badges to collect

Every milestone celebrated

From your very first seed to mastering crop rotation — the Academy rewards every step of your growing journey with badges, XP and level-ups.

🌱Earn badges for completing lessons, streaks and challenges
⭐Level up from Seed Sower all the way to Master Grower
🏅Track your progress on the My Progress screen
Growers Academy badges screen
Stay motivated

Growing is more fun with progress

The Growers Academy keeps you coming back with streaks, badges and XP — because the best growers are the ones who never stop learning.

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XP & Levels
Earn XP for every lesson, quiz and daily challenge. Level up from Seed Sower to Master Grower.
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Daily Streaks
Answer the daily challenge to keep your streak alive. Miss a day and it resets — so keep showing up.
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30+ Badges to Earn
From Green Thumb to Harvest Hero — collect badges as you hit milestones throughout the year.
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Heart System
You get 5 hearts per day for quizzes. They refill every morning ready for your next session.
Glen’s Graduate
1,250 XP earned
12
Day Streak
6/37
Lessons
8
Badges
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Level progress — 68% to next rank
👍 Green Thumb
🔥 7-Day Streak
✅ Checklist Champion
🌱 First Harvest
Go further

Unlock premium — plus a free diary

Levels 4, 5 & 6 cover the advanced stuff — plot management, year-round growing and expert techniques. Plus get Glen’s physical planner diary, free.

🔓Unlock Courses 4, 5 & 6 — 17 advanced lessons
📔Free Vegetable Garden Planner Diary (worth £5)
🔥Advanced daily challenges & bonus XP
🏅Premium-only badges & milestones
💪Support an independent UK growing channel
🚀 Unlock Premium — Get the Diary Free
Vegetable Garden Planner Diary
Vegetable Garden Planner Diary
Glen’s month-by-month guide — what to sow, plant and harvest every week of the year.
£5.00 FREE with premium
Get it Free →

Ready to start growing?

Glen’s YouTube channel has been watched over 1.5 million times — totalling more than 63,000 hours of growing knowledge consumed by gardeners just like you. The Growers Academy brings that same expertise into a free, structured app you can learn from every day.

🚀 Join The Growers Academy Free

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* Some free video lessons are hosted on YouTube and may display a short ad at the start — this helps pay for the hosting of this app.

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