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

Depending on the weather, seed you may have sown direct into outdoor beds in April will have germinated. Keep an eye on them and thin where necessary.

If you are behind, you can buy vegetable plants for planting out. It's also not too late to buy pot grown fruit trees and bushes.

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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Recommended Reading For May

• Container Crops: List of vegetables, fruit and herbs suitable for growing in Pots, Containers, Hanging Baskets and Growbags
  

• Buying vegetable seeds, plants and fruit trees
  

• Companion Plants: Explanation of companion planting and how it works