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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
Guides to grow like a pro
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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In the spotlight
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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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… -
Fast Growing Climbing Plants: Our Top 15
How quickly do climbing plants actually grow? I asked our grower for her recommendations - and for some hard and fast numbers. -
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? -
The Top 10 Trees with Interesting Bark
When you choose a tree with beautifully coloured or textured bark, you’ll have a garden with true four season appeal. Which one will you choose? -
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. -
Rowan Berry: A Bird’s Favourite Food?
What’s so special about the berries of the rowan tree? Clever marketing? Addictive compounds? And if a rowan berry is so good, can we try it too? -
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.
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