Seed Sowing Calendar UK
What to sow each month in a UK garden, from January chillies to October garlic. Vegetables, flowers and herbs, indoors and out.
Open guideFrom the waiting list to the winter store: practical British advice for running a productive plot, written for UK weather and council rules.
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Waiting lists, costs, rules, what you can grow.
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Plan Your Year
Month-by-month plot diary and sowing dates.
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Grow Smarter
No-dig, perennial veg, seed saving.
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Harvest & Preserve
Bottle, dry, and store the glut.
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How to get an allotment in the UK: applying to your council, cutting the wait, your right to ask for plots, viewing a plot and what to grow meanwhile.
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How to Start an Allotment: Your First Year
How to start an allotment in the UK: what to do when you get the keys, tools to buy, clearing and planning the plot, and a month-by-month first-year plan.
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Allotment Rules UK: What You Can Do
UK allotment rules in plain English: sheds, greenhouses, hens, bonfires, flowers, selling produce and keeping your plot tidy enough for inspection.
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Allotment Layout Ideas and Plans UK
Simple allotment layout plans for quarter, half and full UK plots, with handy bed and path sizes, rotation beds and where to put the shed.
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Friendly allotment shed ideas: checking your site's size rules, wall storage for tools, keeping seeds dry, a fold-down bench and simple security.
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Allotment Water Supply Solutions UK
Easy ways to water your allotment: linked water butts, simple drip and soaker hoses, mulching, and what a hosepipe ban means for your plot.
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Build and plant your first raised bed: the right size, what wood to use, the soil mix, easy crops, simple rotation and a month-by-month plan.
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How to Make Compost at Home
How to make compost at home in the UK: choosing a bin, what to put in, mixing greens and browns, turning, fixing problems and using it.
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Inheriting an overgrown plot, hardening your shed against theft, and the climate-driven challenges of running a plot in 2026.
How to Clear an Overgrown Allotment Plot
How to clear an overgrown allotment without wearing yourself out. Cut it down, cover most of it, clear a small patch by hand and grow a crop in year one.
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Allotment Security: Stop Theft and Vandalism
Protect your allotment shed and tools from thieves, with better locks and hasps, tool marking, lighting, site watch groups and what to do after a break-in.
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Flooded Allotment? Drainage and Recovery Plan
What to do when your allotment floods. Protect the soil, decide which crops to bin, then drain the plot with raised beds, French drains and soakaways.
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Allotment Planner: Month-by-Month
A friendly month-by-month allotment planner for the UK: what to sow, plant, pick and tidy each month, plus a handy sowing and harvest chart.
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What to sow each month in a UK garden, from January chillies to October garlic. Vegetables, flowers and herbs, indoors and out.
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Crop Rotation Planner for UK Gardens
A simple crop rotation plan for UK veg beds and allotments: four-bed and three-bed systems, which crops go together, green manures and keeping notes.
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Companion Planting Guide UK
A friendly guide to companion planting in UK gardens. The best plant pairings, which ones to keep apart, and an easy chart for your veg plot.
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Which green manures to sow, when to sow them and how to dig them in or chop and drop, so your empty beds feed the soil instead of washing away.
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Perennial Veg: Plant Once, Pick for Years
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Seed Saving for Beginners UK
Save your own seeds the easy way: the best crops to start with, wet and dry methods, drying, storing, germination tests and the rules.
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How to Preserve Fruit and Vegetables
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Bottling and Canning Your Garden Harvest
How to bottle fruit and tomatoes safely in a water bath at home. Which crops suit bottling, the jars to use, how to check seals and why plain veg differs.
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Drying Garden Produce: Pick the Right Method
Drying garden produce at home: when to air dry, oven dry or use a dehydrator, which crops dry well, rough times and temperatures, and how to store it.
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A plot is more than veg. Hens, bees, wildflower edges, plot-share schemes, and the village show.
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Beekeeping for beginners in the UK. What to do first, which hive to choose, where to put it, the beekeeping year, varroa and why a mentor matters.
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Community Gardens UK: How to Start or Join
How to find, join or start a community garden in the UK. Finding land, insurance, simple legal set-ups, grants and getting growing fast.
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Show Growing: Win at Your Village Veg Show
Fancy entering your local veg show? How to pick show crops, grow them well, time the harvest and stage a tidy plate the judges will love.
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Two centuries of UK allotment history, and the obsessive corner of horticulture where a single pumpkin can outweigh the gardener who grew it.
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From lost common land to Dig for Victory and the lockdown plot rush, here's the story of the British allotment and the laws that still protect it.
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How UK giant vegetable growers raise record pumpkins, onions, leeks and carrots, where to see them in autumn, and which giant class to try first.
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