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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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Vegetable Garden Plans: Spacing Your Plants
Vegetable plant spacing is your secret weapon for better crops, letting each one get enough light, water, air and nutrients to reach its full potential. -
Tomato Benefits: Should You Grow Your Own?
Like any popular food, tomatoes have been the subject of some pretty wild rumours but we can all agree that they're a delicious part of a healthy diet. Can’t we? -
Is Tomato a Fruit?
Sure is. Tomatoes develop from flowers on the plant and contain seeds, so botanically they are fruit. And yet… -
Growing Sweet Potatoes: UK Beginner’s Guide
Thanks to new hardier varieties specially bred to thrive in the UK climate, you can now grow your own sweet potatoes. Here's how. -
Growing Chillies: UK Beginner's Guide
All you need to grow lots of hot chillies from seeds or plants, through nurturing and harvesting, before inviting your mates round for a game of chilli roulette. -
From Plot to Plate: Veg Recipes from Chef Jess Rose Young
We teamed up with chef Jess Rose Young to come up with some amazing recipes, all using fresh vegetables that you can grow at home. -
Heritage Vegetables: Seeds or Plants?
Heritage vegetables are the old fashioned, flavour-packed varieties that filled our fruit bowls before supermarkets insisted everything had to be the same shape, size and colour. -
Grafted Vegetable Plants: Are They Worth It?
Grafted vegetable plants are growing in popularity with UK gardeners. But what are they, and is it worth buying them? -
Brussels Sprouts Fried Rice Recipe by Chef Jess Rose Young
Thought Brussels sprouts were boring? Not here. Watch as Jess turns them into a warming fried rice wonder, the perfect antidote to yet another turkey sandwich. -
Growing Potatoes: The Complete Guide
Potatoes are one of the easiest vegetable crops to grow. You don’t even need a garden - they can be grown successfully in pots, sacks or even a dustbin! -
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. -
Rental Garden Ideas
With a bit of creativity and this handy rental garden guide, there are lots of ways to get your dream garden, even if it’s not attached to your dream house…
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