Growing Tips and Advice

Edible flowers are such a great addition to the veg patch. They’ll provide beautiful flowers all summer, for you and the bees to enjoy. Here’s a quick guide to growing…

In this article, we look at what brings more balance into a kitchen garden, in terms of growing a range of plants that will be good both for your plot…

The main planting season doesn’t kick off until late April, with mid-to-late May usually being the best time to get vegetable plug plants in the ground. It is much warmer…

These tender plants will produce a great crop, but you do need to keep them nice and warm, well watered and you may find they take over the greenhouse unless…

Chitting your seed potatoes will encourage lots of shoots to appear before you plant them which in turn will lead to a bigger crop. It’s very easy to do and…

If you’re short on space but would like to grow climbing beans, then here is a good solution that will give you a good yield without taking up too much…

If you’d like to add some extra growing space this season, or if you’re just getting started with a new plot and need to clear areas of weeds, then planting…

If you’d like to get a really good crop of juicy tomatoes this season, then have a quick read of our top tips below… you can apply the same principals…

With a change of season in sight, you’ll probably find that many of your winter leaves start to produce broccoli-like florets now, and that these will eventually open into small…

It’s often a quiet month in the veg patch this month, but if you’re growing a few crops then you should find that you can harvest several things in the…