A complete guide to growing vegetables, fruit, herbs and edible flowers in garden beds, allotments and container gardening - from small pots to large plots - including garden planning, gardening equipment, site and soil management, sowing garden seeds, planting, looking after crops, harvesting, storing and cooking plus lots more

Growing Fruit Vegetables Herbs and Flowers

How to grow vegetables, fruit, herbs and edible flowers
Nothing beats the taste of home grown produce
freshly picked from your garden

This website has been designed to provide a wealth of information for beginners and the expert gardener alike, from simple seed sowing to training espalier fruit trees, so where you start will depend on your level of expertise.

There are four main ways to find the information you need to grow your own food

1. Green Navigation Buttons - at the top of all pages link to main sections

2. Resource Page - In-depth articles on specific subjects e.g. garden planning

3. Search facility - Enables you to search using keywords or phrases

4. Garden Calendars - Monthly and seasonal jobs to do in the garden

Gardening Calendars

For those who already have established plots or gardens, why not check our gardening calendars showing jobs to do, to make sure you haven't forgotten anything important. They tell you everything you need to know to look after your edible garden plants at all times of the year and all seasons. Click the pictures to get to the detailed calendars.

Summer Gardening Calendars

June Fruit Calendar

June Vegetable Calendar

June Features

Sowing, thinning, pricking out, planting

There's still time to sow many vegetable seeds. Visit our section on how to plan beds, borders and allotments for useful tips and ideas to make the best of the space you have available. How to plan vegetable and fruit beds and allotment plots

There's also still time to get garden essentials such as plant labels, canes, pea sticks, netting, fleece, string, fertilisers, compost etc.

If you're completely new to gardening, you may not have any gardening tools or equipment. We explain what you'll need from the bare necessities to optional extras.

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How to grow vegetables, fruit, herbs and edible flowers Nothing beats the taste of home grown produce freshly picked from your garden