How to Grow Marrow
To grow proper marrows, it is best to select a specific variety rather than just leave courgettes to get bigger. Unlike courgettes, you have a choice of bush or trailing…
How to Grow Lettuce
Lettuce is an odd vegetable, which is as often used for decorative purposes as for taste and nutrition. Shop-bought lettuces have much to answer for in this respect, as are…
How to Grow Onions
This must be one of the easiest vegetables to grow, especially if you start from sets. Each small set will grow into a full-sized onion during the summer. On a…
How to Grow Outdoor Cucumbers
You can grow cucumbers even if you do not have a greenhouse. Try a greenhouse variety in a large container in a sunny, sheltered spot outside, perhaps trained up a…
How to Grow Plant from Seed
I expect you're waiting for the end of this list of ways to get plants for your border, and wondering when you're going to come to seeding. It sounds like…
How to Grow Rhubarb
Rhubarb must be one of the easiest vegetables to grow. Being a long-lived perennial plant, it needs little attention and, whether you get round to forcing or not, it offers…
How to Grow Peppers
Increasing interest in Mediterranean cooking has been accompanied by an increase in the popularity of peppers, of which the main types are the sweet peppers or bell peppers (Capsicum annuum…
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How to Grow Kale
Once confined to the allotment as a standby for the 'hungry gap' period of late winter and early spring, kale is now appreciated for its appearance, too. Modern and rediscovered…
How to Grow Herbs in Containers
Many herbs tolerate being grown within the confines of containers, and people have grown herbs this way for centuries all over the world. Growing herbs in containers is obviously ideal…
How to Grow Herbs from Seed
Growing from seed is preferable if you require larger numbers of plants. Although it is more-work than buying pre-grown plants, it is not difficult and is much cheaper. This is…
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How to Grow Gooseberries
Because most people think that gooseberries need cooking and so do not fit into the world of convenience foods, they are not, perhaps, as popular as they were in the…
How to Grow Garlic
Garlic is one of the easiest crops to grow. No matter where you live in the UK, so long as you have a weed-free, sunny spot and well-drained soil, you…
How to Grow French (Green) Beans
French (green) beans are among the oldest type of cultivated bean. They originated in Central and South America, where evidence suggests that they were being grown at least 8,000 years…
How to Grow Florence and Celeriac
These two unusual vegetables are rarely seen on the vegetable patch but are appreciated in the kitchen for their distinctive flavor. Florence fennel is a type of fennel bred for…
How to Grow Edible Plants in Containers
Planting one type of vegetable per container seems to work best. Mixed plantings of different vegetables, or vegetables and flowers in the same container, soon lose their visual impact once…
How to Grow Cucumbers
One of the quickest ways to prepare a meal is to pop into the garden, grab a lettuce, some tomatoes and a cucumber. Add some fresh, crusty bread - and…
How to Grow Cucumber in the Greenhouse
Summer would not be the same without cucumber for sandwiches and salads. If you have a greenhouse, cucumbers are fairly easy to grow, and a couple of plants will reward…
How to Grow Courgettes
Courgette plants take up a lot of space, spreading at least l m across. But, if you can find room for them in a border or a patio tub, you…
How to Grow Climbing French Beans
As a change from runner beans, try growing climbing French beans up a wigwam in the border or on a trellis or arch. Varieties with yellow-, purple- and red-flushed pods…
How to Grow Chicory and Endive
These continental salad plants are a major ingredient in the bags of exotic salad mixtures available in supermarkets. They are fairly easy to grow and can be harvested late in…