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10 articles across 2 sections: Guides, Ideas.

Two courgette plants in a raised bed with small fruits under the leaves and a trug of picked ones
GuidesStep-by-step guide6 min read

How to Grow Courgettes

How to grow courgettes and zucchini: how many to plant, why the first fruits rot, hand pollination, and picking small enough to keep the plant producing.

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Row of peas gripping twiggy prunings and netting with well filled pods and a colander of picked pods
GuidesStep-by-step guide5 min read

How to Grow Peas

How to grow peas that crop before the mildew. Why early sowing beats late, support even for dwarf varieties, and picking from the bottom of the plant up.

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Onion bed with foliage yellowing and flopping beside lifted onions drying on a slatted rack
GuidesStep-by-step guide6 min read

How to Grow Onions

How to grow onions from sets or seed. Autumn against spring planting, why bolting happens, when to stop watering, and how to dry them so they keep to spring.

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Three shallow containers of mixed salad leaves at different stages with one being cut
GuidesStep-by-step guide5 min read

How to Grow Salad Leaves

How to grow salad leaves that keep coming. Cut and come again rather than whole hearts, why lettuce bolts, and the fortnightly sowing that beats a glut.

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Double row of climbing French beans on crossed canes with pods at picking size and a full trug
GuidesStep-by-step guide5 min read

How to Grow Beans

How to grow climbing and dwarf beans. Runner against French, why flowers fail to set in heat, how to keep picking, and the nitrogen the roots leave behind.

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Garlic bed with upright foliage and curling scapes, and lifted bulbs drying on a rack
GuidesStep-by-step guide6 min read

How to Grow Garlic

How to grow garlic from cloves. Why it needs winter cold, hardneck against softneck, when to cut scapes, and how to dry it so it keeps until spring.

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Close spaced rows of potatoes, onions, cabbage and kale with narrow trodden earth paths
IdeasStep-by-step guide5 min read

Victory Garden Ideas

A victory garden was a wartime plan to feed a household from a small plot. What they grew, what actually worked, and how the same approach holds up now.

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Carrot bed under fine mesh on hoops with a bunch of long straight carrots on the bed edge
GuidesStep-by-step guide4 min read

How to Grow Carrots

How to grow carrots that are not forked or stumpy. Why manure ruins them, how to sow so you barely thin, and the mesh height that stops carrot fly.

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Potato bed with earthed up ridges in flower, a fork in the soil and a trug of lifted earlies
GuidesStep-by-step guide5 min read

How to Grow Potatoes

How to grow potatoes in beds or bags. Why first earlies earn their space and maincrop often does not, how deep to plant, when to earth up, and avoiding blight.

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Cordon tomato plants trained up strings with trusses of ripening fruit and mulched soil
GuidesStep-by-step guide5 min read

How to Grow Tomatoes

How to grow tomatoes from seed to harvest. Cordon or bush, the watering that prevents split skins and blossom end rot, when to feed, and how to spot blight early.

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