Green Manures: How to Improve Your Soil Naturally This Autumn Green manures are one of the unsung heroes of the vegetable garden. They are easy to grow and can offer your soil a much-needed nutrient boost whilst protecting and improving its structure. As we enter the autumn months, we want to demystify the process of…
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Sow Sweet Peas in Autumn for Stronger Plants, Earlier Flowers, and a Longer Flowering Season Sweet peas are one of the high points of the flower-growing season, and sowing your sweet peas in autumn can lead to stronger plants, larger flowers, longer stems, and an extended flowering season. What Are The Benefits of Sowing Sweet…
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How to Keep Your Greenhouse or Polytunnel Productive Over Winter: What to Sow in August By the time August has arrived, we should be enjoying our fantastic harvests after all our hard work in the garden. But we can’t be complacent – now is the time to be thinking about how we can keep being…
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What Hardy Annual Flowers to Sow in Autumn for Earlier Spring Blooms Sowing next season’s flowers seems very far away when we’re enjoying our beautiful blooms at the height of summer, but did you know that late August is a fantastic time to get your hardy annuals going? By sowing now, you can look forward…
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How to Get Rid of Aphids Naturally: Identification, Prevention & Control Whilst not as damaging as some other pests, aphids can be a real nuisance to your plants. These tiny creatures can form large colonies on the underside of younger leaves, shoot tips, and flower buds, and the damage that they cause can have a…
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How to Save Seeds: A Guide to Harvesting and Storing Seeds There’s nothing quite like managing to complete the whole process from sowing seeds to saving and storing your own ready for next year. With a bit of planning and know-how, you can get even more from your harvest this season. We’ve put together some…
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How to Water Properly: When, How Much & Why Feeding matters Watering plants is a simple task, but to make the most out of your watering efforts, there are a few things to look out for. When to water, where to water, and how to water should all be considered to get the best blooms…
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How To Grow Your Own Cut Flowers: A Beginner’s Guide (Part 3) You’ve planned your cut flower garden, sown your seeds, and watched them grow into beautiful blooms. Now is the part you’ve been waiting for – picking and arranging your own flowers is the reward for all your hard work. For the best results…
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Grow Your Own Winter Veg: What to Sow in June for Fresh Harvests All Season June is a very exciting month in the garden. We’re enjoying the warmer weather, watching our crops grow, and even enjoying some of our first harvests. It’s easy to sit back and think our work is done, but June is…
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Slug Control In The Garden: Natural Ways To Protect Plants Slugs are an inevitable part of gardening in the UK. Our damp weather and mild climate provide the perfect conditions for slugs to thrive, and as gardeners, this can be a real issue. But slugs are also a vital part of our ecosystem, and understanding…
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Summer Salads: How to Harvest Fresh Lettuce All Summer Long While pre-packed bags of lettuce seem like a hassle-free option for summer salads, a lot of people don’t realise how easy it is to grow your own tasty leaves all summer long. Plus, the flavour you’ll get will be so much better and fresher –…
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A Beginner’s Guide to Biennial Flowers Some of the most iconic and best-loved flowers in our gardens like Foxgloves, Sweet Williams, and Wallflowers are biennials. Although they take a little patience and planning, biennials really are worth the wait. Whilst annuals complete their entire lifecycle in one year and perennials will come back year after…
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Container Gardening: A Guide to Growing in Small Spaces You don’t have to have a large growing space to get into gardening – containers offer an excellent alternative to large veg patches and flower borders for those of us with smaller spaces to use. With a bit of planning and work, you could be growing…
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How to Grow a Window Box Herb Garden: An Easy Guide to Fresh Herbs at Home There’s nothing quite like grabbing a handful of fresh herbs whilst you’re cooking to elevate your dishes and impress your friends. Herbs are a fantastic way to add depth and flavour to your food and when you grow them…
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Succession Sowing Made Simple: How to Grow Fresh Veg All Season There’s nothing worse than being too eager and sowing all your seeds only to find in harvesting season that you have a huge glut of veg and nothing to do with it all. Succession sowing is an excellent way of combating this, ensuring that…
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Hardening Off Seedlings: When & How to Do It Right Whilst hardening off your plants is a relatively simple process, it is essential to making sure your seedlings grow well when you transplant them outside. Plants that have grown indoors need time to adjust to outdoor conditions properly in order to grow successfully. If you’ve…
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Direct Sowing Vegetables: A Complete Step-By-Step Guide for Easy Home Growing With sowing season now upon us, it’s time to start getting all our delicious vegetables growing. Whilst greenhouses and propagators create the perfect environment for certain seeds to flourish, there are plenty of varieties that actually fare better being direct sown. What is Direct…
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How To Grow Your Own Cut Flowers: A Beginner’s Guide (Part 2) We are always so impatient to get sowing our flowers when March and April come around. Our fresh new packets have already arrived and the sun has started coming out and we can’t wait to get started. But it’s very easy to sow…
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How to Plant Asparagus Crowns: Easy Step-By-Step Guide Asparagus is an early-cropping, easy-to-maintain, perennial vegetable that will keep producing reliable crops every year for up to 20 years. You’ll be grateful for the time and space invested in your asparagus crop when you harvest those fresh spears in springtime, and with a wide variety of…
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Companion Planting: Natural Pest Control & Better Harvests Companion planting is a method of gardening where different plant communities are grown together to share in their mutual benefits. In some cases, this means improving growth rate, flavour, or helping with pollination. In others, it’s more about employing methods of natural pest control by attracting certain insects, deterring others, or…
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How to Grow Bare-Root Strawberry Plants for Juicy, Homegrown Summer Fruit Fresh strawberries are one of the best bits of summer, and picking your own only makes them better. You’ll find homegrown strawberries are sweeter and juicier, and with our new selection of bare-root strawberry plants, it’s never been easier to have fresh fruit at…
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How to Improve Your Compost: A Guide to Compost Additives Any gardener knows that compost is an important consideration when growing your own vegetables and flowers. Creating your own compost is a worthwhile and rewarding activity, but we don’t all have the time or the space to do this. With so many places now selling…
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How To Grow Your Own Cut Flowers: A Beginner’s Guide (Part 1) Growing your own cut flowers is one of the easiest, most cost-effective ways to bring beautiful blooms into your house throughout the summer. With so many new additions to our flower range, 2026 really is the year to get started! The secret to…
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Easy Outdoor Tomato Tips for UK Gardens Nothing beats a homegrown tomato, and they taste completely different to anything you’ll find in a supermarket. With so many different varieties to choose from and every size, shape, and colour you could imagine, tomatoes are a fantastic way to brighten up your garden. Growing tomatoes in a…
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Your Guide to Growing Onion Sets Successfully Onions are an integral ingredient for almost any type of culinary delight, and they can be a lot easier to grow than people expect. Growing onions and shallots from sets is a great, fuss-free and low-risk way to grow your own produce that will make both beginner gardeners and seasoned growers equally excited. Here’s our…
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How to Plant, Grow, and Store Dahlia Tubers: Your Guide to Stunning Dahlias With such a huge variety of colours, shapes, and sizes, dahlias are one of the most exciting flowers you can grow in your garden. They are a real workhorse, providing spectacular blooms right through until the first heavy frosts. While there are…
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Vibrant Gardens, Low Cost: How to Plant Bare-Root Perennials Bare-root perennials are one of the most affordable ways to add bold colours and beautiful shapes to your garden that will keep coming back year on year. Without the confines of a pot, these bare-root beauties often form healthier, more robust root systems that lead to…
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Our Guide to Growing Sweet Peas We love sweet peas as they are one of the easiest plants to grow and thrive pretty much anywhere. They have a delicious scent and come in a wide variety of colours; from the creamy Mrs Collier to the glamorous Almost Black and every shade in between, there really is…
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The Chilli Grower’s Guide to Scoville Ratings! Hot chilli pepper plants are known for adding bold colours and vibrancy to the greenhouse and packing a punch in the kitchen. To help you decide which peppers to pick, we’ve included a Scoville Heat Unit (SHU) rating on each of our listings ranging from 1 pepper for…
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Our guide to Chitting Your Potatoes So, you’ve ordered your potatoes and they’ve now arrived, but what’s the next step? We thoroughly recommend chitting your potatoes – this is a way of starting the growth process of your seed potatoes before they get put in the ground, and it helps them to be more robust…
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How to Select The Right Potatoes Have you ever dreamt of growing your own potatoes but you have no idea where to start? Or perhaps you have a tried and tested favourite, but you’re looking to improve your harvest or to try something new? We’ve put together this handy potato guide to help you get…
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