How To Grow

  • Grow your own: Runner beans

    Grow your own: Runner beans

    These must be UK gardeners’ all time favourite beans, yet they can be a little temperamental. This is often because hot weather prevents the pollination of flowers needed to produce pods, but usually a drop in temperature will get them…

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  • Grow your own: Salad Leaves

    Grow your own: Salad Leaves

    The popularity of pillow-packs of salad leaves in supermarkets has helped to fuel the popularity of grow-your-own salad crops.

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  • Grow your own: Spinach

    Grow your own: Spinach

    Spinach is a crop is not hugely popular as a cooked vegetable but the young leaves are used more in salads now.

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  • Grow your own: Squashes

    Grow your own: Squashes

    Squashes are members of the gourd family and include pumpkins, courgettes and marrows.

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  • Grow your own: Strawberries

    Grow your own: Strawberries

    Strawberries are among the easiest and most adaptable fruits we can grow since they are just as happy in a strawberry pot on the patio or a hanging basket as they are in the soil on the veg plot.

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  • Grow your own: Sweetcorn

    Grow your own: Sweetcorn

    There is nothing more delightful on a warm summer’s evening than eating barbecued home-grown sweetcorn; the juices and melted butter dribbling down your chin. This crop is simple to grow and a great one to involve children in. You’ll have…

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  • Grow your own: Swiss Chard

    Grow your own: Swiss Chard

    Swiss Chard is worth growing just for its decorative leaves and stems. A clump could be grown in the flower border and not look out of place. The stems and the leaves can be eaten with the leaves making a…

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  • Grow your own: Turnips & Swede

    Grow your own: Turnips & Swede

    Home-grown turnips are the best to eat. They can be harvested about golf ball size and eaten raw in salads, rather like radishes, or cooked in many ways.

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  • Grow your own: Tomatoes

    Grow your own: Tomatoes

    Tomatoes are a popular greenhouse crop can also be grown outside on the patio or plot or even in a hanging basket if you get the right variety.

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  • VIDEO: Unboxing the NEW How to Grow Month By Month

    VIDEO: Unboxing the NEW How to Grow Month By Month

    Today we’re unboxing the first in the series of the new How To guides from Kitchen Garden Magazine! ‘How to’… Grow month by month takes you through all the essential tasks to do on your veg patch or in your…

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