UK grow-your-own

Grow this: practical vegetable gardening for British gardens

Month-by-month sowing advice, clear crop guides, and honest kit tips — written for UK weather, allotments, and small gardens. Built to help you harvest more with less guesswork.

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Tomatoes

Indoor sowing, hardening off, and outdoor vs greenhouse crops.

Potatoes

Chitting, planting windows, earthing up, and blight-aware care.

Carrots

Soil prep, succession sowing, and avoiding forked roots.

Runner beans

Supports, sowing dates, and a long summer harvest.

Strawberries

Beds, pots, runners, and when to plant in the UK.

Coming next: twelve “what to sow this month” pages for the UK calendar, a beginners’ hub, and buying guides for raised beds, polytunnels, and greenhouses.

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