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Paste Button labelSelf Pollinating Apple Trees? Your Guide to Apple Pollination Groups
Grafted Vegetable Plants: Are They Worth It?
Rowan Berry: A Bird’s Favourite Food?
The Best Privacy Plants to Screen Your Neighbours
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View allGrowing Chillies: UK Beginner's Guide
Growing Sweet Potatoes: UK Beginner’s Guide
How To Train a Fruit Tree
Cherry Blossom Season: Japan’s Hanami Festival
When cherry blossoms bloom, you really know spring has arrived. Discover the origins of the hanami festival and how you can get involved in the UK. Read moreGet inspired
View allWildlife Pond Ideas, Plants and Tips to Attract Nature
Which is the Best Climbing Plant for Your Garden?
The Best Grapes to Grow in UK Gardens
Kitchen Garden Ideas for a Doorstep Harvest
Kitchen gardens use the available space to its best advantage and provide all the veg you need all year round. Here’s how to get started. Read moreGrowing your own food
View allGrowing Raspberries: A Beginner’s Guide
How to Store Plums and Use Up Your Crop
The Best Grapes to Grow in UK Gardens
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Paste Button labelVegetable Planting Calendar UK (And When to Harvest)
Easy Vegetables to Grow: Our Top 10 Picks
Growing Vegetables in Pots for Beginners
Which is the Best Climbing Plant for Your Garden?
Planting Climbers: A Beginner’s Guide
The Easiest Fruit Trees to Grow in the UK
The Best Soft Fruit Plants (as Chosen by Our Growers)
Planting Fruit Bushes: The Complete Guide
How To Plant a Tree: Potted Trees and Bare Root
How to Choose the Perfect Tree
Best Pond Plants: Top 5 Plants to Bring Your Pond to Life
Planting Pond Plants: A Beginner’s Guide
Cottage Gardens: Design, Flowers & Layouts
10 Best Plants to Attract Bees to Your Garden
Planting Calendar UK: Month by Month
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Is Tomato a Fruit?
Sure is. Tomatoes develop from flowers on the plant and contain seeds, so botanically they are fruit. And yet… -
Rare Apple Varieties: UK’s Best Heritage Apples
Forget supermarket varieties and join the rare apple boom by discovering long forgotten gems that you can grow at home. -
Growing Goji Berries in the UK
When it comes to so-called superfoods, there are few that can compete with the mighty goji berry. But can you grow goji berries here in the UK? -
Apple Trees in Pots: A Grower’s Guide
Tight on space? Follow our grower's tips for successful apple trees in pots - from picking the right variety to feeding and pruning. -
Self Pollinating Apple Trees? Your Guide to Apple Pollination Groups
Discover the basics of apple pollination, how it affects your choice of tree (spoiler: not as much as you’d think) and how to make it work to your advantage. -
Homegrown Apple Recipes from Chef Jess Rose Young
We asked Jess Rose Young, head chef at Genco London, to share some of her original apple recipes to showcase her favourite British apple varieties. -
Forced Rhubarb: A Step-by-Step Guide
If you’ve ever seen upended terracotta pots in an allotment, chances are that it was forced rhubarb. Here's how it works. -
Balcony Garden Ideas for Beginners
Your balcony garden can be a relaxing space to unwind, entertain guests, welcome wildlife and source fresh fruit, vegetables and herbs - the sky's the limit! -
Pruning Apple Trees: A Complete Guide
Give your apple trees a boost with a yearly prune. We asked our experts for their advice on how best to do this with every type of apple tree. -
Free Plants: The Top Three Ways to Get Plants on a Budget
Everyone loves a bargain, and we gardeners are more canny than most. So what’s the best way of getting more plants without shelling out a fortune? -
Pruning Fig Trees: An Expert Guide
If you want to prune, it can help to maximise your fig crop, reduce the size of your tree or just keep it nicely shaped. Here’s how. -
GROWE Community Orchard - October Garden of the Month
GROWE is a thriving community garden next to the Rochdale Canal in Manchester, with its own organic fruit orchard - what better way to celebrate apple season?
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