Grow your own
Fresh ideas and practical growing advice, whether you’re planting your first seeds, filling a few pots or planning an allotment. Find a guide and get started.
Choose your next growing project
Step-by-step guidance on popular crops, small spaces and getting started.
START HERE
Start growing vegetables
A friendly first-year guide to choosing crops, sowing seeds and planning your space.
GROWING GUIDES
Grow tomatoes
Practical advice on sowing, watering and harvesting tomatoes in pots or under cover.
GROWING GUIDES
Grow courgettes
Learn when to sow and plant, how to encourage fruit and when to pick.
SMALL SPACES
Vegetables in pots
Grow vegetables on patios and in containers, even without a garden bed.
NATURAL GARDENING
Companion planting
Explore plant pairings, practical considerations and common myths.
YOUR GROWING SPACE
Allotment advice
Find out how to get a plot, settle in and grow with confidence.
Keep learning and planning
Explore more gardening advice: grow onions · what to plant in July · prepare garden soil · vegetable diseases.
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