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 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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