How to Grow Parsnip

Once thought of as just a winter standby, parsnips are now available from summer onwards as a baby vegetable. In a small garden or even in containers it is possible…

How to Grow Calabrese

Although it originated in Italy, calabrese or green broccoli - to distinguish it from white and purple sprouting broccoli - is sometimes known, confusingly, as American broccoli or plain broccoli…

How to Grow Peas

Of all vegetables, peas are perhaps the best reason for growing one's own: it is impossible to buy peas that taste anything like those that are picked straight from the…

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…

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…