How to grow rhubarb
Read our top tips for planting, growing, forcing and harvesting this delicious treat in your own garden or allotment.
Vegetable Growing
Learn how to grow vegetables here – our comprehensive guides include step-by-step advice on how to sow your own vegetable seeds or successfully grow on vegetable plants to save time. For the best advice on which veg varieties to choose, when and where to plant them, and how to store your precious harvests, we’ve got you covered. Here’s everything you need to know about growing vegetables, from plot to plate, including a quick video on how to pot on plug plants:
How to grow your own marvellous mushrooms
Learn how to grow your own mushrooms with a Suttons Windowsill Mushroom Kit.
How to grow shallots
Here's how to raise onions from seed or grow them from sets.
Should you let garlic flower?
Find out more about garlic scapes and what to do with them in our quick guide below.
How Grafted and Non-Grafted Veg Plants Are Different
Growing your own vegetables provides a number of nutritious, environmental and economic advantages over buying from a store. It is an extremely rewarding …
Perennial Power
Guest post: in an extract from her new book, The Climate Change Garden, author Kim Stoddart explains how to get more resilient through the use of …
Who Or What Was Ailsa Craig?
Waiting my turn at the dentist recently I was surprised when they called the name of the next patient. “Ailsa Craig” was not however my expected shiny red …
How to reduce the effects of hay fever in the garden
One in five people suffer from hay fever at some point in their life, and find summer a time to be endured rather than enjoyed. As hay fever is an allergic …
The Art of Grafting
It would be easy to think that the art of grafting one plant onto the rootstock of another is relatively new but in fact evidence exists of it having been used …
Flowers, Fruit and Vegetable Sowing, Harvesting/Flowering Chart Information
Whether you're sowing fruit and vegetables this year or planning for next, our user-friendly gardening charts provide a month by month view of sowing, …