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Growing guides.

Practical, UK-focused guides to planning and growing a productive garden. 10 guides.

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  • Plan a vegetable garden

    Pick a sunny, sheltered spot, start small, size your beds so you can reach the middle, grow a few easy crops, and set it all out before you build.

  • Crop rotation explained

    Group your vegetables by family, give each group its own bed, and move each group on a step every year to cut pests and disease and keep the soil in balance.

  • Vegetable plant spacing

    Each crop needs a set space to size up. Use the chart for how far apart to plant common veg, and space in a grid to fit more into a bed.

  • Growing vegetables in containers

    Pick a pot at least 45cm deep and wide, fill it with peat-free potting compost, grow easy crops like salad, beans and potatoes, and keep it watered and fed.

  • Growing potatoes

    Chit early seed potatoes, plant from late March in rich soil or a big container, earth up as they grow, water as the tubers swell, then lift from June.

  • Growing tomatoes

    Sow indoors in spring, grow in a greenhouse or warm sunny spot, water evenly and feed once fruits set, and remove the side-shoots on cordon types.

  • Growing carrots

    Sow thinly straight into light, stone-free soil in sun, cover against carrot fly, water sparingly, and pull them young and sweet.

  • Growing onions

    Plant sets in spring (or autumn for an early crop) in a sunny, free-draining bed, keep them weed-free, stop watering as the bulbs swell, then lift and dry them when the tops flop.

  • Growing runner beans

    Give them sun, rich soil and tall supports, sow after the frosts, water well once they flower, and pick the young pods every few days to keep them coming.

  • Growing courgettes

    Sow indoors in warmth from April, plant out after the frosts into rich, moist soil, water heavily, and pick the courgettes small and often.

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