Vegetable Growing

It’s February, you’ve just paid £2.50 for a bag of rocket that’s already going limp in the fridge, and you’re thinking there has to be a better way. There is.…

You spend a Sunday afternoon double-digging a bed, turning over heavy clay soil until your back screams, mixing in compost, raking it flat, and collapsing into a chair with a…

You want to grow potatoes but you haven’t got a vegetable patch — just a patio, a balcony, or a small garden where every square metre is already spoken for.…

You’re browsing seed catalogues in January and there are dozens of UK seed companies all claiming heritage varieties, high germination rates, and expert growing advice. Some charge £3 per packet,…

You plant your tomatoes in a neat row, your basil in a pot on the windowsill, and your marigolds in a border because they look nice. What you probably do…

You’ve been growing veg for a year or two, and things started well. Great tomatoes the first summer, decent beans, the carrots were passable. But now the same bed where…

You’ve spent weeks nurturing seedlings on the windowsill, hardened them off carefully, planted them out in early April — and then the BBC weather app shows -2°C overnight. That sinking…

You’ve got a patch of lawn that gets reasonable sun, a vague ambition to grow your own food, and no idea where to start. The gardening internet is full of…

You’ve scrolled past another perfectly arranged flat of microgreens on Instagram and thought “I could do that.” Unlike most things on Instagram, you actually can — and it takes about…

You planted potatoes in the same raised bed for the third year running, and this time the harvest was pathetic — small, scabby tubers that looked like they’d been through…