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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Sowing Biennials: Next Year's Spring Border
When and how to sow biennials in the UK. Sow wallflowers, foxgloves and sweet William from May to July, then plant out in autumn for spring flowers.
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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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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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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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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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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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How to Grow Magnolia in the UK
How to grow magnolia in a UK garden: the best varieties for small spaces, where and when to plant, light pruning and why buds turn brown.
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How to Grow Rhododendrons in the UK
How to grow rhododendrons in the UK, from acid soil and good varieties to planting shallow, deadheading, light pruning and fixing yellow leaves.
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Best Hardy Annual Flowers to Grow from Seed
Easy hardy annual flowers to sow straight outside from March, like cornflower, calendula, nigella, larkspur and ammi, for colour all summer.
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10 Easiest Flowers to Grow from Seed
Ten cheerful flowers anyone can grow from seed, from sunflowers to cornflowers, with when to sow, how deep and simple tips for months of colour.
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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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What to Plant in June: Sow Now, Eat in Winter
What to plant in June in the UK. Keep salads, beans and roots coming, sow kale and broccoli for winter, and start next spring's biennial flowers.
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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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UK Flower Planting Calendar
What flowers to sow and plant each month in the UK, from sweet peas in winter to tulips in November, with easy tips on frost, bulbs and biennials.
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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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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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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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What to Plant in September: Bulbs and Salads
What to plant in September in the UK. Daffodils and crocuses, onion sets, winter salads, spring cabbage, strawberries, green manures and grass seed.
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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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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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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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When to Sow Wildflower Seeds: Autumn or Spring?
When to sow wildflower seeds in the UK. Why autumn usually wins, when spring is better, which mixes suit each and how to sow so the seed comes up.
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When to Plant Daffodil Bulbs in the UK
When to plant daffodil bulbs in the UK, how deep to plant them, the best varieties, and how to keep them flowering year after year.
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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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When to Plant Dahlias in the UK
When to plant dahlias in the UK, from waking tubers in pots in March to planting out after the last frost and keeping them safe over winter.
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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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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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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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What to Plant in December: Bare Roots and More
What to plant in December in the UK, from bare-root roses, fruit trees and hedging to late tulips, garlic, forced rhubarb and windowsill greens.
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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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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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When to Plant Sunflowers in the UK
When to sow sunflowers in the UK, indoors or straight outside, with tips for giant, dwarf and multi-headed types and how to keep slugs off.
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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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When to Plant Tulip Bulbs in the UK
When to plant tulip bulbs in the UK, how deep to plant them, the best varieties, bulb lasagne in pots and how to avoid tulip fire.
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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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When to Plant Spring Bulbs: Month by Month
When to plant spring bulbs in the UK, bulb by bulb. A simple September to November planting chart for daffodils, tulips, crocus, alliums and more.
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