Potato Blight: How to Save Your Potato Crop
Potato blight can flatten a row in days. Save your spuds with blight alerts, early varieties, cutting the tops and blight-resistant Sarpo potatoes.
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Peach Leaf Curl: Prevent and Cure It
Peach leaf curl blisters and reddens new peach leaves each spring. Why a simple rain shelter beats any spray, and the resistant variety that dodges it.
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Best Pea Varieties for UK Gardens
The best pea varieties for UK gardens, from early and maincrop shelling peas to mangetout and sugar snaps, plus a simple plan for months of picking.
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Best Runner Bean Varieties for UK Gardens
The best runner bean varieties for UK gardens, from Firestorm for reliable pods in hot summers to stringless, long-podded, pot-sized and drying beans.
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Best Lettuce Varieties for UK Gardens
The best lettuce varieties for UK gardens, picked by job, from Little Gem for pots to slow-bolting summer types and hardy winter lettuces.
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Best Carrot Varieties for UK Gardens
The best carrot varieties for UK gardens, matched to the job: pots, heavy clay, sweet raw carrots, carrot fly resistance and winter storage.
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Welsh Onions: The Onion You Plant Once
Welsh onions are perennial bunching onions you cut again and again. How to sow, harvest, divide and feed a clump that crops for years, even in winter.
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What to Do in the Garden in February: Key Jobs
What to do in the garden in February in the UK. Chit potatoes, sow chillies under heat, prune clematis and dogwoods, and why sowing too early backfires.
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Aminopyralid: The Weedkiller in Your Manure
Aminopyralid in manure or compost makes tomatoes, beans and potatoes grow ferny and twisted. How to spot it, test for it and fix the bed.
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Best Drip Irrigation Kits for UK Gardens
Which drip irrigation kit suits your garden? Micro-drip for pots, dripline for rows, gravity kits for allotments, plus set-up, timers and winter care.
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Garden Gabion Builds: Wall, Seat, Raised Bed
How to build a garden gabion wall, seat or raised bed with one simple method: which baskets and stone to buy, the base, and the bracing that stops bulging.
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Tomato Leaves Curling? Causes and Fixes
Tomato leaves curling? Learn why they roll up or cup down, from harmless leaf roll and heat to weedkiller-tainted manure, viruses and pests.
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Hugelkultur in the UK: Where It Actually Fails
Does hugelkultur work in the UK? Where a log-cored raised bed helps, why it struggles on wet clay, which wood to use and how to build one above ground.
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TomTato: Does the Two-Crop Plant Work?
The TomTato grafts a tomato onto a potato. Find out if it really gives two crops, how to grow one in a pot, and who should buy one in the UK.
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Roses from Seed: Why Yours Won't Be Peace
How to grow roses from seed in the UK: picking ripe hips, cleaning the seed, a winter chill in the fridge, sowing, and why seedlings never copy the parent.
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Pear Rust: Why Your Neighbour's Juniper Did It
Bright orange spots on pear leaves? That's pear rust, and it comes from a juniper, not your pear. How to spot it, find the source and what really helps.
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Rhubarb Problems: Rot, Bolting and Pests
Rhubarb problems explained: how to tell crown rot, honey fungus, leaf spot, viruses and slugs from harmless bolting and thin stalks, and what to do.
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Runner Bean Problems: No Pods, Pests, Disease
Runner bean problems solved: why flowers drop without making beans, plus how to deal with blackfly, sparrows, red spider mite, halo blight and tough pods.
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Autumn Onion Sets for an Early Crop
How to plant autumn onion sets in the UK for a June harvest: the best overwintering varieties, when and how to plant, winter care and avoiding bolting.
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When to Stop Picking Rhubarb and Why
When to stop picking rhubarb in the UK: finish by the end of June so the crown can build up strength for next spring, plus how to pick it properly.
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Grafted Vegetable Plants: Are They Worth It?
Grafted vegetable plants explained: which tomatoes, aubergines, peppers and cucumbers are worth buying grafted in the UK, and how to plant them properly.
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How to Grow Cabbage: Spring to Winter
How to grow cabbage all year in the UK: when to sow spring, summer, savoy and red types, how to plant them firm, keep pests off and cut heads.
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Spring Cabbage: Sow in Summer, Cut in March
How to grow spring cabbage in the UK. Sow in July or August, plant out firmly in autumn, net against pigeons and cut spring greens from March.
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Wild Carrot: Grow Queen Anne's Lace in the UK
How to grow native wild carrot (Queen Anne's lace) in the UK: sowing, poor sunny soil, wildlife value, self-seeding and telling it from poison hemlock.
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Seed Snails: 20 Sweet Peas in One 13cm Pot
How to make a seed snail, a coil of compost that grows 20 sweet peas or beans in one pot. Sizes, sowing depths, what to sow and how to unroll it.
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Leek Moth: Damage Signs and Mesh Dates
How to spot leek moth damage on leeks, onions and garlic, tell it from allium leaf miner, and when to cover crops with insect mesh to keep it out.
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Mealy Cabbage Aphid: Grey Bugs on Brassicas
Grey, floury aphids under your cabbage and sprout leaves? How to identify mealy cabbage aphid, clear it without sprays and stop it coming back.
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Grow Potatoes in Buckets and Containers
How to grow potatoes in buckets on a UK patio or balcony, from drilling drainage holes and chitting to earthing up, watering and tipping out the crop.
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Free Tomato Plants From Sideshoot Cuttings
Turn pinched-out tomato sideshoots into free plants. Root them in a jar of water or compost in about two weeks, and take them by mid-July to get fruit.
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Leek Rust: Spot It, Stop It and Still Eat It
Orange spots on your leek leaves? How to recognise leek rust, slow it down without sprays, choose tolerant varieties and still eat the crop.
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Jar Grown Sprouts: A UK Windowsill Guide
Grow alfalfa, mung bean and lentil sprouts in a jar on your windowsill, with a simple day-by-day rinsing routine and clear food safety tips.
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Cabbage Whitefly on Kale and Sprouts: What to Do
Clouds of whitefly on kale, sprouts or broccoli? How to tell cabbage whitefly from greenhouse whitefly, why it's mostly cosmetic and how to keep it down.
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Stop Onions Bolting: UK Prevention Guide
Why onions bolt in UK gardens and how to stop it: small sets, sensible planting dates, bolt-resistant varieties and what to do when a flower stalk appears.
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Pear Midge: Save Your Pear Crop
Pear midge makes young pears swell, blacken and drop in May and June. How to spot it, and the simple pick-and-fork routine that breaks its cycle.
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Pollen Beetles: Tiny Black Bugs on Your Flowers
Tiny black beetles on your flowers are usually pollen beetles. Find out why they're harmless in gardens and how to clear them from cut flowers.
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Railway Sleeper Edging: Ideas and How to Lay It
Railway sleeper edging made simple: oak, softwood or reclaimed, the creosote rule, how to lay and pin sleepers, plus ideas for beds, paths and steps.
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Vegetables to Grow Indoors in Winter
The best vegetables to grow indoors in a UK winter: microgreens, pea shoots, sprouts, salad leaves and herbs that crop on a sill from November to February.
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DIY Potting Compost: Peat-Free Mix Recipes
Mix your own peat-free potting compost at home. Simple recipes for seed, potting-on and ericaceous mixes, plus a peat-free take on John Innes.
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How to Grow Yacon in the UK
How to grow yacon in the UK: start crowns indoors, plant out after frost, lift in autumn, cure the tubers for sweetness and save the crowns for next year.
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Autumn Sowing Sweet Peas for Earlier Flowers
How to sow sweet peas in autumn in the UK: October sowing in deep pots, keeping seedlings alive in a cold frame all winter, and earlier summer flowers.
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Community Composting: How to Start a Scheme
How to start a community composting scheme in the UK: find a site, pick a system, sort the waste exemption, and keep volunteers and the heap going.
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Pea and Bean Weevil: How to Stop the Damage
U-shaped notches on your pea and broad bean leaves? That's pea and bean weevil. Here's how to protect seedlings and when you can ignore it.
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Potato Blackleg: How to Spot and Stop It
Potato blackleg turns stem bases black and slimy and rots tubers. Learn to spot it, tell it from blight, stop it spreading and keep it away next year.
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How to Cut a Flower Bed Into a Lawn
Turn a patch of lawn into a new flower bed: mark the shape with a hosepipe, then dig the turf out or smother it with cardboard. Easy UK steps.
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Garden Fleece: Which Grade and How to Use It
How to use garden fleece in the UK: 17g or 30g grade, which crops to cover and when, how to pin it down against wind, and when to take it off.
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Grow Quinoa in the UK: Sowing to Saponin Rinse
How to grow quinoa in the UK: choosing a variety that ripens here, sowing in spring, harvesting in September, threshing, winnowing and rinsing the grain.
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Seed Tapes: How to Use Them and Make Your Own
Seed tapes make sowing tiny seeds like carrots easy. How to sow them, how to make your own with loo roll and flour paste, and which crops are worth taping.
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Biennial Bearing: Why Fruit Trees Skip a Year
Apple tree cropping heavily one year and barely the next? That's biennial bearing. Here's why it happens and how to break the cycle by thinning.
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Eco-Friendly Garden Design That Works
Eco-friendly garden design for UK plots: fewer sealed surfaces, rainwater, peat-free no-dig soil, reclaimed materials and planting that feeds wildlife.
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Garden Tips to Sell Your Home Faster
Garden tips for selling your home: quick weekend jobs for kerb appeal, staging the back garden for viewings, and where not to waste your money.
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How to Earth Up Potatoes
How to earth up potatoes: when to start, how high to build the ridges, how often to repeat for earlies and maincrop, and how it stops green potatoes.
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How to Grow Purple Sprouting Broccoli
Grow purple sprouting broccoli for the hungry gap. Sow in April or May, plant 60cm apart in firm soil, protect it over winter and pick spears in spring.
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How to Grow Long Parsnips for Show
Grow long show parsnips with the bore-hole method: a sieved stone-free mix, early sowing with fresh seed, even watering and a careful lift.
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How to Grow Pot Leeks for Show
Grow pot leeks for show: raise prize strains from flower-head plantlets, feed hard, blanch with collars, then dress and stage short, thick barrels.
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How to Grow Trench Celery for Show
Grow trench celery for the show bench: sowing without bolting, preparing the trench, collaring, earthing up to blanch, and dressing a matched set.
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Why Do My Apples and Pears Taste Bitter?
Home-grown apples or pears tasting bitter, mealy, bland or off? Match the taste and the inside of the fruit to the cause, and fix it for next year.
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Garden Obelisk Ideas: 10 Ways to Add Height
Ten garden obelisk ideas for UK borders, pots and veg plots, from sweet pea towers to bean wigwams, with the best climbers and how to anchor them.
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Tomato Diseases in Polytunnels: UK ID Guide
Humid polytunnel air brings tomato leaf mould, grey mould and ghost spot. Learn to spot each one and the airflow and watering habits that keep them away.
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Why Have My Onions Bolted? What to Do Now
Onions sent up flower stalks? Find out why they bolted, how to snap off the stalks, whether you can eat them and what to do with the rest of the bed.
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Growing Vegetables in Hanging Baskets
Growing vegetables in hanging baskets: the best crops, basket size, compost, daily watering, feeding and safe fixing for a UK wall, porch or balcony.
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Small Veg Garden Layout: 5 Plans That Fit
Small vegetable garden layout ideas for UK back gardens. Five simple plans, the right bed and path widths, and the best crops to grow when space is tight.
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Which Vegetables Need a Trellis?
Which vegetables need a trellis or support in a UK veg patch, which don't, the best support for each crop, and why it should go in before you sow.
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Best Companion Flowers for UK Veg Beds
Companion flowers for vegetables: which flowers to grow with which crops, from nasturtiums and calendula to marigolds, and what each one really does.
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Dwarf French Beans: Easy Crops Without Canes
How to grow dwarf French beans in UK gardens and pots: no canes needed, when to sow, spacing, easy varieties, picking little and often and freezing.
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July Garden Jobs: Peak-Season UK Checklist
July garden jobs for UK gardens: deep watering in heat, deadheading, summer pruning wisteria and lavender, feeding tomatoes, blight checks and harvesting.
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Tomato Growing Tips for a Bigger Harvest
Tomato growing tips to get more fruit from each UK plant. Deep planting, high-potash feeding, steady watering, de-leafing and stopping at the right truss.
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Spinach All Year: UK Succession Sowing
How to grow spinach all year in the UK. Succession sow true spinach in spring and autumn, then fill the gaps with perpetual and New Zealand spinach.
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Brown Rot on Stone Fruit: Stop It Spreading
Brown rot on plums, cherries and peaches: how to spot the grey spore rings, clear mummified fruit, prune at the right time and stop rot spreading.
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Drought-Tolerant Vegetables for Dry UK Summers
Drought-tolerant vegetables for dry UK summers: the crops that cope best, the ones that dodge the heat, and simple mulching and watering tips.
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Edible Garden Weeds: 10 You Can Eat
Edible garden weeds you can eat: how to identify 10 common UK weeds such as dandelion, nettle and chickweed, their lookalikes and how to cook them.
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Hoeing Borders: When, How Often and Which Hoe
How to hoe borders and veg beds the easy way: the best weather, how often to hoe, which hoe to use and how to slice weeds off without hurting your plants.
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Daucus 'Dara': Grow It for Cut Flowers
How to grow Daucus carota 'Dara' as a cut flower in the UK: when to sow, spacing, staking, when to cut for a long vase life, partners and self-seeding.
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Three-Cornered Garlic: How to ID and Remove It
How to identify three-cornered garlic, tell it from edible wild garlic, dig out every bulb and dispose of it safely within UK rules on invasive plants.
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Apple and Pear Scab: Spot It and Stop It
Apple and pear scab puts dark blotches on leaves and corky scabs on fruit. How to identify it, which varieties resist it and how to cut it back each year.
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Cardboard and Grass Clippings Mulch: How To
How to smother weeds with cardboard and grass clippings: which cardboard to use, how thick to spread the clippings, when to lay it and when to plant.
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Exhibition Runner Beans: Long, Straight Pods
How to grow exhibition runner beans for a UK show: Stenner, Enorma and Liberty, sowing for your show date, growing straight pods, picking and staging.
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How to Get Rid of Couch Grass for Good
How to get rid of couch grass from beds, borders and allotments: forking out the roots, smothering, weedkiller options and stopping it creeping back.
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Harvesting Potatoes: When and How to Lift
When to harvest potatoes in the UK: signs each type is ready, how to lift without spearing tubers, cutting the haulm and drying the crop for storage.
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Tomato Sideshoots: When and How to Pinch Out
How to pinch out tomato sideshoots: spot them in the leaf joint, which tomatoes need it, when to stop the plant and what to do with missed shoots.
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Storing Potatoes: Sacks, Boxes and Clamps
How to store potatoes at home so they last into spring: the right sacks and boxes, a cool dark frost-free spot, building a clamp, and stopping sprouting.
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Show Stump Carrots: Grow a Matched Set
How to grow stump-rooted carrots for show: varieties, sand-filled drums, carrot fly cover, sowing dates, lifting, washing and staging a matched set.
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3-Year Crop Rotation: Bed Layout and Feeding
Set up a 3-year crop rotation in the UK: how to lay out three beds, when to add lime, manure and compost, and where potatoes fit outside the cycle.
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Exhibition Peas: Grow Long Pods for the Show
How to grow exhibition peas for a UK veg show: long-podded varieties, sowing for your show date, training on canes, picking and staging a matched dish.
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Homemade Pesticides: The Law and Safer Fixes
Thinking of a homemade pesticide spray? Why soap, garlic, chilli and neem mixes aren't legal in the UK, and eight easy ways to beat pests instead.
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Horse vs Cow Manure: Which Should You Use?
Horse vs cow manure for your garden: which suits clay or sandy soil, weed seeds, rotting time, the weedkiller risk and how to use each one safely.
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Best Sweet Potato Varieties for UK Growers
Which sweet potato varieties crop best in the UK: Beauregard, Bonita, T65, Evangeline and more, compared for flavour, flesh colour and outdoor growing.
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Build a Raised Bed for Under £10
Build a 1m x 2m raised bed for under £10 from free scaffold boards or pallets: where to find wood, a simple build, cheap ways to fill it and what to grow.
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Companion Planting Myths: What Works
Companion planting myths checked: which pairings have real support, which are folklore, and what to do instead about whitefly, carrot fly and caterpillars.
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Drying Onions After Harvest, Rain or Shine
How to dry onions after lifting so they keep all winter. When to lift, curing outdoors or in a shed in a wet year, the neck test and plaiting.
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Hand Pollination: Tomatoes, Squash and Fruit
Hand pollination for UK growers: how to pollinate greenhouse tomatoes, courgettes, squash, melons and early peach blossom, and when to let bees do it.
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Grow Edamame in the UK: A Greenhouse Crop
How to grow edamame soya beans in the UK: early varieties, sowing in April, inoculant, growing under cover, when to pick and how to cook the pods.
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Grow Wasabi UK: Real Wasabi in 18 Months
How to grow real wasabi in the UK: cool shade, constant moisture, pots, beds or flowing water, eating the leaves and lifting the rhizome after 18 months.
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How to Grow Long Carrots for Show
Grow long carrots for show: bore deep holes, fill with a fine stone-free mix, sow in spring, beat carrot fly, then lift and wash without snapping the tip.
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Pinching Out Cut Flowers: Which to Pinch
Which cut flowers to pinch out for more stems, when and where to pinch cosmos, sweet peas, snapdragons, zinnias and dahlias, and which to leave alone.
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Polytunnel Planning Permission: Do You Need It?
Do you need planning permission for a polytunnel? The UK height, boundary and position rules, when they don't apply, and how to check first.
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Perennial Tulips That Come Back Every Year
Repeat-flowering tulips for UK gardens: the species and varieties that come back every spring, how deep to plant them and the easy no-lift method.
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Storing Root Veg Outdoors: Clamps and Straw
Store root veg outdoors over a UK winter: which roots can stay in the ground under straw, and how to build, open and look after a traditional clamp.
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Sun-Dried Tomatoes Without the Sun
How to make sun-dried tomatoes in the UK without the sun: oven and dehydrator methods, the best tomatoes to dry, and how to store them safely.
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3-Year Crop Rotation Plan: What to Sow Where
A ready-made 3-year crop rotation plan for three UK veg beds: what to sow in each bed every year, with reliable varieties and a monthly calendar.
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Drying Beans and Peas for Winter Soups
How to dry borlotti, runner beans and peas for winter. Best drying varieties, when to pick, finishing indoors, shelling, storing and cooking safely.
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Dried Vegetable Soup Mix and Veg Crisps
Turn a veg glut into a jar of dried soup mix and crunchy veg crisps. Which crops to dry, blanching, drying times, the soup recipe and storage.
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Exhibition Onions: Grow Show Bulbs From Seed
How to grow exhibition onions for the show bench: Kelsae and other varieties, sowing under heat in winter, feeding, lifting, drying and staging.
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4-Year Crop Rotation: What to Grow in Each Bed
A 4-year crop rotation for UK allotments, bed by bed: what to sow in the legume, brassica, root and potato beds, and how to move them on each winter.
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Growing Indian Spices in the UK: What Works
Which Indian and Eastern spices you can grow in the UK, from coriander and methi to chillies, turmeric, ginger and curry leaf, and which ones won't crop.
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May Sowing: 6 Tender Veg Seeds to Sow Now
The six tender veg to sow in May in the UK: French and runner beans, sweetcorn, courgettes, squash and cucumbers. When, how deep and pots or direct.
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Nostalgia Gardening: Grow Grandma's Favourites
Nostalgia gardening brings back old-fashioned cottage flowers and heritage veg. What it is, which varieties to grow, and how to save your own seed.
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Reusing Spent Compost: When, How, What For
How to reuse old compost from pots and grow bags: a simple refresh method, what to grow in it next, and when it's safer to tip it on the beds instead.
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Tomatoes Splitting on the Vine: UK Fix
Why tomatoes split on the vine, the two kinds of crack, the steady watering and mulching that prevent it, and whether split tomatoes are safe to eat.
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Feed the Soil, Not the Plants: Where to Start
What "feed the soil, not the plants" means and how to do it. Compost, mulch, green manures and no-dig, plus when a top-up feed still helps.
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Show Potatoes: Grow a Prize-Winning Set
How to grow show potatoes in the UK. The best show varieties, growing in sieved compost, timing the harvest and picking a perfectly matched set.
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Best Vegetables to Grow in Pots
The best vegetables to grow in pots in the UK, crop by crop, with the pot size each needs, compact varieties to buy and the crops to leave in the ground.
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Chest or Upright Freezer for Your Harvest?
Chest or upright freezer for home-grown fruit and veg? Compare running costs, space, organising, garages and power cuts, and pick the right one for you.
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Growing Tables and VegTrugs: A Practical Guide
Thinking about a growing table or VegTrug? What to look for, which crops thrive at waist height, the best compost mix and how to keep one going for years.
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Seed Germination Temperatures: A Sower's Chart
Seed germination temperatures for common UK veg, flowers and herbs: how warm the compost needs to be, when a propagator helps, and when to sow outside.
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Bocking 14 Comfrey: Propagation Guide
How to propagate Bocking 14 comfrey from root cuttings and division, when to do it, how deep to plant, and why comfrey seed is never Bocking 14.
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Comfrey Liquid Feed: Recipe and Dilution Rates
A simple comfrey liquid feed recipe: how much leaf and water to use, the no-water concentrate method, dilution rates by crop and how often to feed.
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Day Length and Plant Growth UK: Photoperiod
How day length affects UK crops: why onions bulb in summer, why lettuce and spinach bolt, and how to time sowings and pick varieties to suit long UK days.
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Drying Apples and Pears: Rings, Slices, Leather
How to dry apples and pears at home in a dehydrator, low oven or on string. Best varieties, slicing, the bend test, conditioning and storage.
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Freezing Vegetables: Blanching Times by Crop
Freezing vegetables from the garden: blanching times for peas, beans, broccoli, sweetcorn and more, the ice-bath method, and how to cook them from frozen.
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Growing Comfrey: Plant Once, Feed Your Garden
How to grow comfrey in a UK garden: why Bocking 14 is the one to plant, where to put it, when to cut it and the best ways to use the leaves.
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Rabbit, Deer, Pigeon or Badger: Who Ate My Veg?
Work out whether rabbits, deer, wood pigeons or badgers are damaging your garden from the signs they leave, then protect your veg the right way.
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Storing Garden Produce: What Keeps Where
Storing garden produce in the UK made simple: which crops keep for months, where to store each one, and what to freeze or preserve straight away.
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How to Store Onions, Garlic and Shallots
How to store onions, garlic and shallots so they last into spring: where to keep them, plaits or nets, the best keepers and how to stop rot and sprouting.
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Blackfly on Broad Beans: Spot It and Stop It
Blackfly smothering your broad bean tips? Learn to spot black bean aphid, pinch it out at the right time and let ladybirds finish the job for you.
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Rock Dust for Gardens: Is It Worth Using?
Rock dust for UK gardens, honestly explained: what it is, what it can and can't do, how to use it, and when compost or a soil test is a better buy.
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Share or Rent Out Your Garden to a Grower
How to share or rent out your garden to someone who wants to grow food. Finding a grower, what to agree in writing, tax, insurance and fair terms.
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Wireworm: Spot the Damage and Protect Potatoes
Neat little holes in your potatoes? Learn to identify wireworm, tell it from slug and cutworm damage, and protect root crops on newly dug ground.
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Wood Ash and Soot in the Garden: Safe Uses
How to use wood ash in the garden safely: which plants like it, how much to spread, which ash and soot to bin, and how to store it from your woodburner.
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Gardener's Back Pain: How to Garden Without It
How to avoid gardener's back pain: safer lifting, kneeling and digging, back-friendly tools and beds, a quick warm-up, and when to see a GP.
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Vegetable Plant Families for Crop Rotation
Which vegetables belong to which plant family, the pests and diseases each family shares, and the surprising members that catch gardeners out.
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Choosing an Allotment Shed: What to Buy
Choosing an allotment shed: check site rules first, then pick the right size, material and base, plus the security features worth paying for.
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Fluid Sowing: Pre-Germinate Slow Seeds
Fluid sowing for parsnips, carrots and parsley: how to pre-germinate seed on damp kitchen paper and pipe it into a drill in fungicide-free paste.
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Corten Steel in the Garden: Uses and Pitfalls
How to use Corten weathering steel in a UK garden. Edging, raised beds, screens and water features, how the rust patina forms and how to avoid stains.
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Allotment Show Judging: How UK Veg Is Scored
How judges score veg at allotment and village shows: points, condition, matched sets, staging rules and the common faults that quietly cost you a prize.
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Kitchen Scraps: 10 UK Veg You Can Regrow
Ten kitchen scraps you can regrow on a UK windowsill, from spring onions to lemongrass, plus the avocado, pineapple and carrot-top myths to skip.
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Allotment Herb Bed: A Simple 2m Plot Plan
Plan an allotment herb bed that crops all season: a 2m x 2m layout, a dry zone and a moist zone, which herbs go where, and when to sow and pick.
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Growing Almonds in the UK: Can You Get a Crop?
Can you grow almonds in the UK? Yes, with a warm wall and frost cover. The best varieties, pollination, peach leaf curl, pruning and harvesting the nuts.
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Calabrese: Summer-Long Heads and Side Shoots
Calabrese growing in the UK: sow little and often from March to July, net against pests, cut the main head right and pick side shoots for weeks.
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How to Grow Landcress: Peppery Winter Salad
How to grow landcress in the UK: a hardy, peppery watercress lookalike for normal soil. When to sow, spacing, picking through winter and stopping bolting.
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Polytunnel Calendar: Jobs for Every Month
A month-by-month polytunnel calendar for UK growers, with what to sow, plant and harvest each month, plus ventilation, watering and pest jobs.
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Allotment Paths: Widths, Materials and Building
How to build allotment paths that last. The right widths for a wheelbarrow, woodchip, slabs, gravel or grass compared, and a woodchip path step by step.
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Bonfires on Allotments UK Rules
Can you have a bonfire on your allotment? Site rules, smoke nuisance, what you can burn, how to do it safely, and easy ways to skip the smoke.
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Pea Moth: Stop Maggots in Your Peas
Maggots in your pea pods? That's pea moth. How to spot it, when it lays eggs, and how sowing dates and fine mesh keep your peas clean next summer.
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Rotavator for an Allotment: Petrol or Electric?
Petrol or electric rotavator for your allotment? How to match the machine to your plot and soil, when to hire instead, and when not to rotavate at all.
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Half Plots and Sharing an Allotment
Half plots and allotment sharing in the UK: the three ways to share, what your council allows, a simple sharing agreement and how to crop a half plot.
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Sustainable Planting Trends for UK Gardens
Five sustainable planting trends for UK gardens: dry-garden plants, prairie borders, peat-free compost, heat-tough picks and rain gardens.
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Allotment Gardening as You Get Older
Keep your allotment going as you get older, with higher raised beds, wider firm paths, lighter tools, a smaller plot and an easier crop list.
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Best Vegetables to Grow in Shade
The best vegetables to grow in shade in UK gardens: leafy crops, herbs and fruit that cope with 3-4 hours of sun, plus the crops to keep for sunnier spots.
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Cutworm UK ID: How to Save Your Seedlings
Seedlings cut off at soil level overnight? Learn how to spot cutworms, tell them from wireworm and slug damage, and protect young plants with collars.
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Dig for Victory: 7 Wartime Lessons for UK Plots
Dig for Victory lessons for today's UK allotments: plan for the kitchen, rotate crops, keep beds full, store roots in clamps and save your own seed.
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Taking On a Vacant Allotment Plot: First Steps
Just been offered a vacant allotment plot? What to check before you sign, who owns the old shed, and how to plan your first few months on the plot.
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Onion Root Fly: 5 Defences That Work
Onion root fly maggots hollow out onion bulbs from May. How to spot the damage and 5 simple defences, from fine mesh to planting sets, that keep it out.
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Asparagus Beetle: Spot It and Save Your Bed
Asparagus beetle stripping your fern? Learn to spot the beetles, eggs and grey grubs, pick them off the easy way and protect next year's spears.
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Fusarium Wilt on Tomatoes: Spot It and Recover
How to spot Fusarium wilt on your tomatoes, what to do with sick plants, and how to grow a healthy crop again next year in the same greenhouse.
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Best Pear Tree Varieties for UK Gardens
The best pear varieties for UK gardens, from reliable Conference to buttery Comice, with easy pollination pairs, picking months and picks for small spaces.
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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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UK Allotments: A History from 1809 to Today
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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Giant Vegetables: How UK Growers Break Records
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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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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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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Best Onion Varieties to Grow From Sets or Seed
The best onion varieties for UK gardens, compared by sets or seed: top keepers, reliable reds, big seed-grown onions and hardy autumn-planted types.
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Bulbs in Perennial Borders for Spring Colour
How to add bulbs to a perennial border: which bulbs to use, when and how deep to plant, and the perennials that hide fading bulb leaves in late spring.
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Diamondback Moth on Brassicas: ID and Control
Diamondback moth caterpillars leave see-through window holes in cabbage and kale. How to identify them and how fine mesh and hand-picking stop them.
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No-Dig on Heavy Clay: Start a Veg Bed That Works
How to start a no-dig veg bed on heavy clay soil: cardboard, compost depths, when to plant, first crops and how to handle wet, sticky ground.
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Cabbage Moth: The Caterpillar in Your Cabbage
Cabbage moth caterpillars feed at night and tunnel into cabbage hearts. Learn to tell them from cabbage whites and protect brassicas with mesh and checks.
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Edimentals: Plants That Look Good and Feed You
Edimentals for UK borders: 12 edible plants pretty enough for the flower bed, from sea kale and artichokes to chard, plus how to design and care for them.
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Hazel Pea Sticks: Free DIY Plant Supports
Make free plant supports from hazel and birch. When to cut rods, where to find them, and how to build pea sticks, sweet pea wigwams and peony domes.
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Bean Rust: Orange Spots Ruining Harvests
How to spot bean rust on runner, French and dwarf beans, what to do when it turns up, and the easy habits that keep it away next year.
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Lettuce Downy Mildew: Save Your Salads
Spot lettuce downy mildew early, from yellow patches on top to white fluff underneath, and keep your UK salads healthy with simple growing tips.
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Tomato Early Blight: Spot and Stop It
How to spot tomato early blight in the UK by its target-like rings, and how to slow it with leaf removal, mulch, base watering and a good clean-up.
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Onion Downy Mildew: The Wet Weather Destroyer
Onion downy mildew turns leaves pale, then grey-purple and floppy in wet summers. How to spot it, slow it down, save the bulbs and stop it next year.
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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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Allium White Rot: The 20-Year Soil Problem
How to spot allium white rot on onions, garlic and leeks, how it spreads, and the easy ways to keep growing them if your soil has it.
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Onion Diseases: Which One Is Ruining Your Crop?
Spot the common onion, garlic and leek diseases in UK gardens: white rot, downy mildew, neck rot, rust and basal rot, with simple ways to prevent each.
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How to Fan Train a Fruit Tree on a Wall
How to fan train a fruit tree: which fruit suits a fan, putting up wires, the first three years of shaping, and pruning peaches, plums and cherries.
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Wildlife-Friendly Allotments: Grow and Help
How to make your allotment wildlife-friendly and still grow plenty of food, with flower strips, hedgehog gaps, log piles, a mini pond and no-dig beds.
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Verticillium Wilt: How to Identify and Manage It
Spot the signs of verticillium wilt on acers, strawberries and tomatoes, learn what to do with an affected plant, and choose safe replacements.
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Squash and Courgette Diseases: What's Wrong?
What's wrong with your courgette? Match white leaves, mottling, rotting fruit and black ends to the right squash or courgette problem, and what to do next.
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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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Flea Beetle: Tiny Holes, Big Damage
Flea beetle peppers rocket, radish and young brassicas with tiny holes. How to identify it, which crops it hits hardest and how fine mesh stops the damage.
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How to Grow Borlotti Beans in the UK
Grow borlotti beans in the UK for fresh beans in summer and dried ones for winter. Varieties, sowing, supports, picking, drying and storing.
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Corn Salad: Winter Salad That Survives Frost
How to grow corn salad (lamb's lettuce) in the UK: when to sow, easy varieties, growing in shade or pots, picking all winter and letting it self-seed.
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Mangetout and Sugar Snaps: Sow to Harvest
How to grow mangetout and sugar snap peas in the UK: the difference, best varieties, when to sow, supports, dodging pea moth and picking tips.
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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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Perennial Veg: Plant Once, Pick for Years
Meet 14 perennial vegetables for UK gardens, from asparagus and rhubarb to sea kale and sorrel, that come back every year for less work.
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Regenerative Gardening: Build Living Soil
Regenerative gardening in the UK explained. Stop digging, keep soil covered, grow cover crops and add compost for healthier soil and more wildlife.
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Brassica Downy Mildew: Save Your Seedlings
Spot brassica downy mildew on cabbage, cauliflower and rocket, from yellow patches to grey fuzz underneath, and stop it with airflow and smart watering.
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Cabbage Root Fly: How to Protect Brassicas
How to spot cabbage root fly and keep its maggots off your UK brassicas with insect mesh, brassica collars, nematodes and a simple monthly plan.
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Codling Moth: Protecting Apple Trees
How to spot codling moth and stop maggoty apples and pears. Simple timings for pheromone traps, cardboard bands, nematodes and tidying up.
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How to Grow Salsify and Scorzonera
How to grow salsify and scorzonera in the UK: deep stone-free soil, April sowing, lifting roots in winter, spring chards and simple ways to cook them.
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How to Grow Sorrel in the UK
How to grow sorrel in the UK: common vs French sorrel, sowing, growing in shade, stopping it bolting, picking the lemony leaves and cooking with them.
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Common Bean Diseases: UK Guide
How to spot and deal with common bean diseases in UK gardens, from chocolate spot and halo blight to rust, white mould and mosaic virus.
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How to Deadhead Flowers
How to deadhead flowers for a longer show. Where to cut on roses, dahlias, sweet peas, perennials and bedding, which tool to use and when to stop.
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How to Get an Allotment
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 Grow Cucamelon in the UK
Grow cucamelons (mouse melons) in a UK garden: sowing, plant supports, when to pick, quick pickles, saving the tubers and good companion plants.
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How to Grow Peach Trees in the UK
Grow juicy peaches in the UK on a sunny wall or in a pot. Picking a variety, fan training, beating leaf curl, hand pollinating, pruning and picking.
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How to Grow Tomatillo in the UK
How to grow tomatillos in the UK, with easy tips on sowing, why you need two plants, greenhouse growing, picking when the husk splits and salsa verde.
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Greenhouse Whitefly: Identify and Control
How to spot greenhouse whitefly and keep it in check with Encarsia wasps, yellow sticky traps, a good autumn clean and an easy month-by-month plan.
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Dwarf Vegetables for Small Spaces
The best dwarf vegetables for pots, window boxes and balconies: compact tomatoes, peppers, courgettes, beans and salads, with pot sizes and sowing times.
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How to Grow Mizuna in the UK
How to grow mizuna in the UK: when to sow, cut-and-come-again picking, growing it through winter, dealing with pests, and month-by-month jobs.
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How to Grow Nectarine Trees in the UK
How to grow nectarines in the UK: the best varieties, planting by a warm wall, fan training, keeping off peach leaf curl, pruning and picking your fruit.
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How to Grow Tatsoi in the UK
How to grow tatsoi in the UK from seed, with friendly tips on when to sow, soil, pots, keeping flea beetle off and picking leaves through winter.
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How to Store Root Vegetables Over Winter
How to keep carrots, parsnips, beetroot and other roots through a UK winter, using boxes of damp sand, a clamp or simply leaving them in the ground.
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Garden Glut: What to Do With Too Much Veg
Too many courgettes, beans or tomatoes? How to use up a garden glut by freezing, cooking, preserving and sharing, plus how to avoid one next year.
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Allium Leaf Miner Control Guide UK
How to spot allium leaf miner, when to cover leeks, onions and garlic with fine mesh, and the simple tidy-up that stops it coming back.
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Cucumber Mosaic Virus Guide UK
How to spot cucumber mosaic virus on cucumbers, courgettes and tomatoes, what to do with infected plants, and how to stop it coming back next year.
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Forcing Rhubarb, Chicory and Seakale
How to force rhubarb, chicory and seakale in the dark for early, tender winter and spring crops, plus quick ways to give potatoes and salads a head start.
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How to Grow Kohlrabi in the UK
How to grow kohlrabi in the UK: green or purple, when to sow, how to keep pests off, and when to pick the crisp bulbs at their best.
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Neem Oil in UK Gardens: Is It Legal to Use?
Can you spray neem oil in a UK garden? Why it isn't legal as a pesticide, and easy non-chemical ways to deal with aphids, whitefly and more.
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Late Blight: Protect Potatoes and Tomatoes
Late blight jumps between potatoes and tomatoes. See how it spreads, spot it on both crops and plan your plot so one crop doesn't infect the other.
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Carrot Root Fly: Prevention and Control UK
Keep carrot root fly out of your carrots with mesh barriers, clever sowing times, tougher varieties and a few easy habits at thinning time.
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How to Grow Romanesco in the UK
How to grow romanesco in the UK, from sowing indoors and planting out firmly to feeding, netting against caterpillars and cutting the spiral heads.
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Staking and Supporting Garden Plants UK
When and how to stake garden plants in the UK, from canes and pea sticks to grow-through rings and bean wigwams, plus how to tie without damage.
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Carrot Leaf Blight: UK Control Guide
How to spot carrot leaf blight, why wet summers bring it on, and the simple habits that keep your carrot tops green and your roots growing.
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How to Grow Endive in the UK
A friendly guide to growing endive in the UK. Sow curly frisée or escarole, blanch the hearts for a milder taste, and pick salads into winter.
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How to Grow Marrow in the UK
How to grow marrows in the UK, from sowing in April to storing them for winter. Easy tips on spacing, feeding, pollination and show marrows.
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How to Grow Shallots in the UK
How to grow shallots in the UK from sets or seed: the best varieties, when and how to plant, plus easy harvesting, drying and storing tips.
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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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Best Potato Varieties for UK Gardens
The best potato varieties for UK gardens: first earlies, second earlies and maincrops, plus when to plant, how to chit and which ones shrug off blight.
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Cabbage White Butterfly: ID and Control
How to spot cabbage white butterflies, eggs and caterpillars, and keep them off your brassicas with netting, hand-picking and a little help.
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Forest Gardening for Beginners: Where to Start
Forest gardening for UK beginners: what the seven layers are, the easiest plants to start with, your first winter's planting and the yearly jobs.
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How to Grow Amaryllis in the UK
How to grow amaryllis in the UK: when to plant for Christmas flowers, watering and feeding, and the simple summer routine that gets it to bloom again.
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How to Grow Sweet Peppers in the UK
How to grow sweet peppers from seed in the UK, with friendly tips on easy varieties, sowing in warmth, greenhouse care, feeding and colouring up.
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How to Grow Wild Garlic in the UK
How to grow wild garlic in a shady UK garden: planting bulbs in autumn, sowing seed, telling it apart from lookalikes, picking leaves and cooking with it.
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Hungry Gap: What to Grow in Spring
Fill the spring hungry gap with fresh veg. The best UK crops to pick from March to May, and when to sow them so they're ready in time.
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Sprouts or Microgreens? A Windowsill Guide
Sprouts or microgreens: which should you grow on your windowsill? How they differ, the easiest seeds for each, and how to keep both going all year.
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How to Grow Garlic Chives in the UK
How to grow garlic chives in UK gardens and pots, from sowing and dividing clumps to picking the leaves and tasty white flowers and stopping self-seeding.
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How to Grow Globe Artichokes in the UK
How to grow globe artichokes in UK gardens, from seed or offsets, with the best varieties, soil, picking the buds and keeping plants safe over winter.
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How to Grow Jerusalem Artichokes UK
How to grow Jerusalem artichokes in the UK: when to plant tubers, how to stop them spreading, and how to dig them fresh all winter.
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How to Grow Okra in a UK Greenhouse
How to grow okra in a UK greenhouse: soaking and sowing the seed in warmth, planting out, helping the flowers set pods and picking them young.
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How to Grow Pak Choi and Asian Greens
How to grow pak choi, mizuna, tatsoi and other Asian greens in the UK: when to sow, stopping bolting, pots, greenhouse crops and picking all year.
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How to Grow Rocket in the UK
How to grow peppery rocket in the UK, from salad and wild types to sowing little and often, stopping it bolting, beating flea beetle and picking.
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How to Grow Swiss Chard in the UK
How to grow colourful Swiss chard in a UK garden, with easy tips on varieties, when to sow, picking little and often, pots and getting it through winter.
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Club Root: Spot It and Still Grow Brassicas
How to confirm club root on cabbages and other brassicas, how it spreads, and how to keep cropping on infected UK ground with lime and resistant types.
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Common Tomato Diseases: UK ID Guide
How to spot and sort out common tomato problems in UK gardens and greenhouses, from blight and leaf mould to blossom end rot.
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Growing Wedding Flowers in Your Garden
Grow your own wedding flowers in a UK garden: what to grow for each month, when to start, how to plan a cutting patch and keep stems fresh on the day.
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How to Create a Gravel Garden UK
How to make a gravel garden in the UK: the best gravel to use, getting clay ready, tough plants that love dry spots and easy care through the year.
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How to Grow Horseradish (and Keep It Contained)
How to grow horseradish in UK gardens: plant root cuttings in spring, keep it from spreading, lift roots in autumn and make fiery fresh sauce.
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How to Grow Sweet Potatoes in the UK
How to grow sweet potatoes in a UK garden, with easy tips on good varieties, starting slips indoors, planting out in June, harvesting and curing.
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Multi-Sowing Vegetables: UK Guide
Save time and space by sowing a pinch of seeds in each module and planting out the whole clump. Which veg to multi-sow, how many seeds and when.
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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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Best Garlic Varieties to Grow in the UK
The best garlic varieties to grow in the UK: long-keeping softnecks, flavourful hardnecks, early and spring-planting types, and which to choose.
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Biochar for Gardens: Is It Worth Using?
What biochar does in UK garden soil, how to charge it before use, how much to add, which soils gain most, and when not to bother with it.
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Condition Cut Flowers for Longer Vase Life
How to pick, trim and care for cut flowers so they last longer in the vase, from the best time to cut to fresh water, flower food and where to stand them.
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How to Grow Celery in the UK
How to grow celery in UK gardens for crisp stems. Surface-sow in spring, plant self-blanching types in a block, keep them watered and avoid leaf spot.
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How to Grow French Beans in the UK
How to grow French beans in UK gardens, with easy sowing dates, dwarf and climbing varieties, simple supports, regular sowing and picking tips.
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School Garden Ideas: A Plan That Fits Term Time
School garden ideas for UK primary schools. Raised beds, crops that fit term dates, wildlife areas, summer holiday care, safety and funding tips.
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Soil Drainage and Structure Guide
How to check your soil drainage with two easy home tests, then fix soggy clay or thirsty sandy soil with compost, grit or raised beds.
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Allotment Shed Ideas and Storage
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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How to Grow Chicory and Radicchio in the UK
Grow chicory and radicchio in the UK: the best types, the summer sowing window, forcing chicons in the dark, and fresh leaves right through winter.
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The Potager Garden: Edibles Meets Design
How to make a potager: a pretty kitchen garden where veg, herbs and flowers share neat beds. Layout, plant pairings and keeping it lovely all year.
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Unusual Crops to Grow in the UK
Fancy something different? Twenty unusual crops for UK gardens, from oca and yacon to cape gooseberries and shiso, with easy sowing and picking tips.
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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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Accessible Gardening for Disabilities
Friendly tips for accessible gardening: raised beds at the right height, wide firm paths, easy-grip tools, easy watering and help with costs.
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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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Blight-Resistant Tomatoes for Outdoor Growing
The best blight-resistant tomato varieties for growing outdoors in the UK, from Crimson Crush to bush cherries for pots, plus how to keep blight at bay.
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Best Tomato Varieties to Grow in the UK
The best tomatoes to grow in the UK, from sweet Sungold cherries to big beefsteaks and blight-resistant outdoor types, with when to sow each.
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Growing Vegetables on a Windowsill UK
Grow herbs, salad, chillies, radishes and microgreens on a UK windowsill: which window works best, the right pots, and how to keep going in winter.
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Blossom End Rot: Causes and Prevention
Why tomatoes, peppers and courgettes get black bottoms, and how steady watering, mulch and the right feed stop blossom end rot in UK gardens.
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Grow Winter Salad Leaves in the UK
Pick fresh salad leaves all winter. Which hardy leaves to grow, when to sow, how to use a cold frame or greenhouse, and how to keep picking.
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Sprouts and Shoots: Pea, Sunflower and Mung Bean
Grow the three easiest sprouts and shoots at home in the UK. Mung bean sprouts in a jar, plus pea and sunflower shoots in a windowsill tray.
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Best Climbing Roses for UK Gardens
The best climbing roses for UK walls and fences, including picks for shade, scent and repeat flowers, plus simple planting, training and pruning tips.
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How to Grow Carrots in the UK
Grow carrots in the UK: the best varieties, when and how to sow, keeping carrot fly away, growing in pots, and storing your crop over winter.
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How to Grow Cucumbers in the UK
How to grow cucumbers in the UK, in a greenhouse or outdoors: the best varieties, sowing, training, feeding, watering and fixing common problems.
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How to Grow Potatoes in the UK
Grow potatoes in a UK veg bed or allotment, from choosing seed potatoes and chitting to planting, earthing up, beating blight, lifting and storing.
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Front Garden Ideas UK
Easy front garden ideas for UK homes: evergreen planting that looks good all year, a clear path, smart bin screening, boundaries and paving rules.
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Carbon-Friendly Gardening: Cut Your Footprint
Carbon-friendly gardening made simple: the swaps that cut your garden's footprint most, from peat-free compost and composting to no-dig and hand tools.
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Cloches and Low Tunnels: UK Guide
How to use cloches and low tunnels to sow earlier and pick later. Easy builds, the best crops to cover and a simple month-by-month plan.
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Easy Recipes with Home-Grown Vegetables
Easy recipes for home-grown vegetables, season by season: pea soup, courgette fritters, roast roots and leek soup, all quick and made from the plot.
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How to Grow Brussels Sprouts in the UK
Grow Brussels sprouts in UK gardens: good varieties, when to sow, planting firmly, staking, netting against pigeons and picking after frost.
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Easy Vegetables for Kids to Grow
Easy vegetables for kids to grow in the UK: fast, fun crops like cress, radishes, peas and potatoes, with sowing times and tips to keep children keen.
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Growing Tomatoes in the UK: A Beginner's Guide
Grow your first tomatoes in a British garden or greenhouse: when to sow, easy varieties, feeding, watering, pinching out and fixing common problems.
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How to Grow Onions in the UK
How to grow onions in UK gardens: sets or seed, good varieties, when and how to plant, weeding, harvesting, drying and storing your crop for winter.
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When to Plant Tomatoes in the UK
When to sow and plant tomatoes in the UK, with simple timings for greenhouse and outdoor crops, hardening off and what to do if you start late.
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When to Sow and Plant Sweet Peas in the UK
When to sow sweet peas in the UK and when to plant them out. Compare autumn, winter and spring sowing, with a month-by-month calendar to follow.
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How to Grow Microgreens in the UK
How to grow microgreens on a UK windowsill: the easiest seeds to start with, a simple step-by-step method, and how to keep fresh greens coming.
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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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Kitchen Garden Design and Layout
Plan a kitchen garden that's easy to use: the best spot, sizes from 3x3m to 10x6m, bed and path widths, four-bed rotation and what to grow first.
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How to Freeze Garden Produce
How to freeze your garden fruit and veg so it tastes fresh months later, with blanching times, the open-tray trick, syrup packs and storage tips.
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How to Prevent Weeds Without Chemicals
Prevent weeds without chemicals in UK borders and veg beds. Cover soil with mulch and plants, stop digging, hoe little and often and stop weeds seeding.
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How to Grow Peas in the UK
Grow sweet peas for the pot in a UK garden. When to sow, the best varieties, simple supports, dodging pea moth, picking at the right time and saving seed.
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Raised Bed Garden Design Ideas UK
Raised bed ideas for UK gardens: the best sizes, which materials to use, layouts for small to large plots, what to fill them with and what to plant.
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What to Plant in August in the UK
What to sow and plant in August, from quick salads and pak choi to spring cabbage, winter onions and new strawberry plants from runners.
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Square Foot Gardening UK Guide
How to start square foot gardening in the UK. Build a small grid bed, fill it with a peat-free mix and grow loads of veg in a tiny space.
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How to Grow Pumpkins and Squash in the UK
How to grow pumpkins and squash in the UK: sowing indoors, planting out after frost, hand pollinating, feeding, then curing and storing for winter.
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How to Grow Lettuce and Salad Leaves in the UK
How to grow lettuce and salad leaves in the UK: easy varieties, little-and-often sowing, cut-and-come-again picking, beating slugs and winter salads.
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How to Grow Spinach in the UK
How to grow spinach in the UK: true, perpetual and New Zealand spinach, when to sow, how to stop bolting, picking, winter crops and pots.
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UK Soil Types: Identify Yours in Minutes
Find out if your garden is clay, sand, silt, loam, chalk or peat with a quick hand test, then learn how to improve it and what grows best.
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Green Manures: UK Cover Crops Guide
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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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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How to Prune Fruit Trees
When and how to prune apple, pear, plum, cherry and fig trees, in plain steps. The right season for each, the tools to use and the mistakes to avoid.
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How to Start a Vegetable Garden in the UK
A friendly beginner's guide to starting a vegetable garden in the UK. Pick a sunny spot, prep the soil and grow five easy crops in year one.
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How to Grow Celeriac in the UK
Grow celeriac in the UK: sowing early indoors, planting out after frost, steady watering for smooth roots, trimming side shoots and winter storage.
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Do You Need a Greenhouse? Crops That Need Glass
Do you need a greenhouse? See which UK crops truly need glass, which grow fine outdoors, and the cheaper cover that might do the job instead.
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Rust Disease on Plants: Spot and Treat It
Rust disease on plants explained: how to spot orange and brown rust pustules on hollyhocks, leeks, beans, pelargoniums and more, and how to keep rust down.
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How to Make Comfrey and Nettle Feed
How to make free comfrey and nettle feed at home: what to pick, how to brew it, how much to dilute it and when to use it in a UK garden.
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How to Grow Chilli Peppers in the UK
Grow chillies in the UK from seed: picking varieties by heat, sowing early with bottom heat, feeding, ripening, overwintering and drying your crop.
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Grow Your Own Vegetables: UK Guide
New to growing veg? What to grow first, where to put it, when to sow and plant in the UK, plus an easy planting chart and the mistakes to dodge.
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How to Grow Rhubarb in the UK
How to grow rhubarb in the UK, from planting crowns and the first-year wait to pulling stems, forcing early pink rhubarb and dividing old plants.
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How to Grow Turnips and Swede in the UK
How to grow turnips and swede in the UK. Quick turnips from spring to late summer, swede sown in May or June for winter, plus pests and storing.
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Vegetable Pests and Diseases UK Guide
Spot and sort the most common vegetable pests and diseases in UK gardens, from slugs and carrot fly to blight and clubroot, with a month-by-month plan.
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How to Grow Asparagus Fern Indoors
Asparagus fern care for UK homes: the right light, keeping the air moist, watering, repotting, and keeping the berries away from pets and children.
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How to Create a Herb Garden: Plans and Layouts
Plan and set up a herb garden that suits your space: where to put it, four easy layouts, a raised bed planting plan, pots, and which herbs to group.
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What to Plant in November: Garlic to Bare Roots
What to plant in November in the UK. Garlic, autumn broad beans, tulips and wallflowers, plus the start of bare-root fruit tree, rose and hedge season.
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What to Plant in July in the UK
What to sow and plant in July in UK gardens, from winter veg and quick salads to biennial flowers, fruit jobs and keeping on top of the harvest.
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Best Greenhouse Tomato Varieties UK
The best tomato varieties for UK greenhouses, heated or unheated: sweet cherries, reliable Shirley, plum and beefsteak types, plus care under glass.
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How to Grow a Peace Lily in the UK
Keep a peace lily happy in a UK home. Simple tips on light, watering with hard tap water, dry winter air, feeding, repotting and getting more flowers.
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When to Plant Potatoes in the UK
When to plant potatoes in the UK, from chitting in late winter to first earlies in March, maincrops in April and a Christmas crop in summer.
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How to Preserve Fruit and Vegetables
Too much from the garden? Easy ways to keep fruit and veg for months, from freezing and bottling to drying, salting and fruit leather, done safely.
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Container Vegetable Gardening UK
How to grow vegetables in pots on a UK patio, balcony or doorstep: the best crops, pot sizes, compost, watering and feeding, plus a simple six-pot plan.
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Raised Bed Gardening for Beginners
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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Garden to Table: Grow What You Love to Eat
Plan a garden to table plot around the meals you cook. Which crops to grow, how to pick at their best and how to keep food coming all year in the UK.
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How to Grow Broad Beans in the UK
Grow broad beans in the UK: sow in autumn or spring, pick good varieties, pinch out tips to beat blackfly, and harvest young for the best beans.
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What to Plant in October: Bulbs, Sets and Beans
What to plant in October in the UK. Garlic, autumn onion sets, broad beans, spring bulbs, tulips and wallflowers, plus the start of bare-root fruit season.
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Succession Planting Guide for the UK
Sow little and often for veg from spring to autumn. Which crops to sow every few weeks, how often, and a simple month-by-month UK plan.
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What to Plant in April in the UK
April is a busy month! Here's what veg, flowers, herbs and fruit to sow and plant now, what to start indoors, and what needs to wait until May.
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How to Grow Runner Beans in the UK
How to grow runner beans in the UK, with good varieties, sowing indoors and out, building a sturdy bean frame, watering for pods and picking often.
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When to Plant Broad Beans: Autumn or Spring?
When to plant broad beans in the UK. Autumn and spring sowing windows, the right variety for each, regional timings and when each sowing will crop.
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Allotment for Beginners
A friendly beginner's guide to your first UK allotment: clearing the plot, feeding the soil, easy crops, crop rotation and keeping on top of it.
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No-Dig Gardening: The UK Guide
How to start a no-dig garden in the UK with cardboard and compost, which crops to grow first, and what to expect as your soil improves each year.
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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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How to Grow Fruit Trees in the UK
How to grow apple, pear, plum, cherry and fig trees in UK gardens, with simple advice on rootstocks, planting, pruning and the easiest varieties.
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Best Vegetables to Grow at Home UK
The best vegetables to grow at home in the UK, from easy beginner crops to big croppers and pot-friendly veg, plus a simple first-season plan.
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How to Grow Radishes in the UK
How to grow crunchy radishes in the UK, from sowing every few weeks and thinning to growing them in pots and storing winter radishes.
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What to Plant in May in the UK
What to sow and plant in May in UK gardens, from planting out tomatoes and courgettes to sowing beans, bedding plants and hanging baskets.
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How to Store Apples and Pears at Home
How to store home-grown apples and pears so they last into spring: when to pick, which varieties keep, the right spot and how to ripen pears.
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How to Grow Courgettes in the UK
Grow courgettes the easy way: when to sow, planting out, watering, feeding, helping pollination, picking little and often and beating mildew.
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What to Harvest This Month UK
What's ready to pick this month? A friendly month-by-month UK harvest calendar for veg, fruit and herbs, with easy signs that each crop is ready.
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How to Graft Fruit Trees: A Beginner's Guide
How to graft fruit trees at home: collecting scion wood, whip-and-tongue and cleft grafts, summer chip budding, aftercare and why grafts fail.
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How to Grow Parsnips in the UK
Grow sweet parsnips in the UK with fresh seed, deep stone-free soil and a bit of patience. Sowing, canker, frost and winter harvesting made easy.
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How to Grow Sweet Peas from Seed
How to grow sweet peas from seed in the UK, with easy tips on autumn or spring sowing, pinching out, giving them something to climb and picking often.
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Best Greenhouse Plants Month by Month
What to sow, grow and pick in your greenhouse every month of the year, from forced rhubarb in January to winter salads at Christmas.
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Chutney Recipes from the Garden
Six easy chutney recipes for garden gluts: green tomato, apple, runner bean, courgette, plum and beetroot, plus how to pot, store and gift them.
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UK Vegetable Planting Calendar
A friendly month-by-month vegetable planting calendar for UK gardens: when to sow, plant out and harvest 29 favourite crops, with tips for the north.
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How to Grow Spring Onions in the UK
How to grow spring onions in the UK: the best varieties, sowing little and often, overwintering, pots and windowsills, and when to pull them.
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Growing in Grow Bags UK
How to grow tomatoes, peppers, salad and more in grow bags on a UK patio or balcony: setting up, best crops, watering, feeding and reusing bags.
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How to Grow Alliums in the UK
Plant allium bulbs in October and November, deep, in sun and well-drained soil. They're fully hardy, flower May to July and leave lovely seedheads.
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How to Grow Asparagus in the UK
How to grow asparagus in the UK: the best varieties, planting crowns, when to start cutting, and simple care for a bed that crops for years.
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How to Grow Leeks in the UK
How to grow leeks in the UK: sow in modules, drop them into deep dibber holes, earth up for long white stems and dig them all winter.
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What to Plant in January: First Sowings
What to plant in January in the UK. The first indoor sowings (chillies, aubergines, onions, sweet peas), plus bare-root trees, garlic and chitting.
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When to Plant Garlic: The UK Timing Guide
When to plant garlic in the UK, region by region. The best autumn window, how late you can leave it, spring planting and what to do if you miss it.
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How to Grow Garlic in the UK
How to grow garlic in UK gardens, from choosing softneck or hardneck types and planting in autumn to lifting, drying and storing your bulbs.
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Pickling and Fermenting Garden Produce
A friendly UK guide to pickling and fermenting your home-grown veg, with easy recipes, simple salt ratios, the kit you need and how to store jars.
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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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What to Plant in February: Early Starts
What to plant in February in the UK. Tomatoes and peppers indoors, broad beans and peas under cloches, chitting potatoes and snowdrops in the green.
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How to Grow Sweetcorn in the UK
How to grow sweetcorn in the UK, with easy tips on good varieties, sowing indoors, planting in blocks, watering and picking cobs at their sweetest.
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Powdery Mildew Treatment for Plants
Spot, treat and prevent powdery mildew on roses, courgettes, apples, peas and cucumbers, with simple watering, spacing and variety tips.
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What to Plant in March in the UK
What to sow and plant in March in UK gardens, from tomatoes on the windowsill to broad beans, onion sets, first early potatoes and flowers.
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Greenhouse Growing Calendar UK
Your month-by-month UK greenhouse calendar: what to sow, what to grow, which jobs to do and what to pick under glass from January to December.
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Peat-Free Compost Guide UK
A friendly guide to peat-free compost for UK gardeners, from reading the bag and choosing a type to watering, feeding and mixing your own.
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How to Grow Pear Trees in the UK
Grow pear trees in a UK garden with easy advice on rootstocks, varieties, planting, pollination partners, pruning and picking pears at just the right time.
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How to Train Fruit Trees: Espalier
Grow apples and pears flat against a wall or fence. A friendly UK guide to espalier, fan, cordon and step-over trees, wires and pruning.
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How to Grow Beetroot in the UK
How to grow beetroot in UK gardens: easy varieties, when to sow, thinning, little-and-often sowing, harvesting, storing and eating the leaves.
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Tomato Blight: Prevention and Treatment
How to spot tomato blight in the UK and keep it away. Grow under cover, pick resistant varieties, keep leaves dry and act fast if it strikes.
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How to Grow Kale in the UK
How to grow kale in the UK: the best varieties, when to sow, how to keep pigeons and caterpillars off, and how to pick leaves all winter.
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How to Grow Cauliflower in the UK
Grow cauliflower in the UK: which types to sow when, firm rich soil, steady watering to avoid tiny heads, keeping curds white, and dodging clubroot.
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How to Grow Aubergines in the UK
How to grow aubergines in the UK from seed: easy varieties, sowing with warmth, greenhouse and pot growing, feeding, and when to pick them.
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How to Grow Broccoli and Calabrese in the UK
Grow broccoli and calabrese in UK gardens: pick varieties, sow and plant firmly, net against pigeons and butterflies, and keep picking side shoots.
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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.
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