Growing 18 July 2026 14 min read
Filler Flowers: 11 Best for UK Cutting Beds
The florist's focal, filler and foliage rule explained, plus 11 filler flowers for UK cutting gardens with sowing times, stem length and vase life.
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Grow your own fruit, vegetables, and herbs. Real advice for real UK growing conditions.
British growing seasons are short and the weather rarely cooperates, so variety choice and sowing dates matter more than anything you can buy. These 344 guides cover fruit, veg, and herbs that earn their space in a UK garden, with sowing windows, spacings, and harvest timings tested against real seasons rather than packet promises.
Start here. The five crops and questions readers come back to most:
- Growing Potatoes — chitting to harvest, first earlies to maincrop
- Growing Strawberries — the easiest fruit win in a UK garden
- How to Grow Garlic — plant in autumn, lift in July
- Best Tomato Varieties — which ones actually ripen outdoors here
- What to Plant in October — the sowing window most people miss
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Vegetables
Tomatoes, potatoes, beans, and every veg for UK gardens.
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Fruit
Strawberries, raspberries, apple trees, and soft fruit.
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Basil, rosemary, mint, thyme, and kitchen herb guides.
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Planting Calendar
Month-by-month sowing guides and planting schedules.
Growing 18 July 2026 13 min read
How to Grow Alyssum: Scent, Bees and a Rescue
How to grow alyssum in the UK: sow at 15 to 18C, plant 15cm apart, and shear back in July for a second flush of scented flower by August.
Growing 18 July 2026 13 min read
How to Grow Amaranthus: Tassels You Can Eat
How to grow amaranthus in the UK: sow at 20 to 22C under cover, plant out after the last frost, stake the tassels, then cut, dry or eat the crop.
Growing 18 July 2026 13 min read
How to Grow Amarine: Autumn's Toughest Bulb
How to grow Amarine in the UK: plant bulbs in spring with the neck exposed, bake the base in sun, and get pink trumpets from September to November.
Growing 18 July 2026 14 min read
How to Grow Ammi Majus: Autumn Sowing Wins
How to grow Ammi majus in the UK. Autumn sowing gives stems 30cm taller and three weeks earlier. Plus the sap warning nobody mentions.
Growing 18 July 2026 13 min read
Canterbury Bells: The Two-Year Wait Explained
How to grow Canterbury bells in the UK. Sow May to June, plant out in autumn, flower the next June. Cup and Saucer forms, staking and winter losses.
Growing 18 July 2026 13 min read
Polemonium: Jacob's Ladder That Behaves
How to grow Polemonium in UK gardens: the best Jacob's ladder cultivars, division timing, stopping runaway self-seeding and beating powdery mildew.
Growing 18 July 2026 13 min read
Solomon's Seal: Beat the June Sawfly
Grow Solomon's seal in UK shade: rhizome planting depth, the best Polygonatum for dry shade, and how to stop sawfly stripping the leaves in June.
Growing 18 July 2026 13 min read
Welsh Onions: The Onion You Plant Once
Welsh onions are perennial bunching onions, not spring onions. Sow at 12C, harvest cut-and-come-again all year, and divide the clumps every three years.
Growing 17 July 2026 14 min read
How to Grow Corydalis in Dry Shade
How to grow corydalis in the UK: cool moist shade for the electric-blue types, and why they vanish in July. Plus the tough self-seeding yellows.
Growing 17 July 2026 13 min read
How to Grow Gaillardia: Months of Flower
How to grow gaillardia, the blanket flower: full sun, sharp drainage and hard deadheading keep this short-lived perennial flowering from June to frost.
Growing 17 July 2026 14 min read
How to Grow Gerberas Outdoors: Hardy Types
How to grow gerberas outdoors in the UK: hardy Garvinea survives to -8C, while tender florist gerberas need a windowsill. Full guide to both types.
Growing 17 July 2026 13 min read
How to Grow Hesperantha: Autumn's Last Flower
How to grow hesperantha, the crimson flag lily once known as Schizostylis: plant in moist soil and full sun for red and pink autumn flowers.
Growing 17 July 2026 13 min read
How to Grow Liatris: The Top-Down Spike
How to grow liatris (blazing star) in the UK: plant corms 8-10cm deep in spring, in full sun and sharp drainage. A pollinator magnet that flowers top-down.
Growing 17 July 2026 13 min read
How to Grow Streptocarpus on a Windowsill
How to grow streptocarpus, the Cape primrose: bright indirect light, let the compost dry between waterings, high-potash feed and a cool winter rest.
Growing 17 July 2026 13 min read
Kalanchoe Care: Make Flaming Katy Rebloom
Kalanchoe care made simple: water the Flaming Katy dry, keep it above 10C, and force it to rebloom with 14 hours of darkness for six weeks.
Growing 16 July 2026 14 min read
Chaos Gardening: We Trialled It, 31% Grew
Chaos gardening tested over two seasons on 12m2 of Staffordshire clay: real germination rates, which species smother the rest, and how to fix it.
Growing 16 July 2026 14 min read
Hotbed Gardening: 65C of Free Winter Heat
Hotbed gardening in the UK: measured temperature curves from fresh horse manure, what to sow at each stage, and carrots by April with no heater.
Growing 16 July 2026 14 min read
Hugelkultur in the UK: Where It Actually Fails
Hugelkultur raised beds in a UK climate: four years of measured results on Staffordshire clay, where the wood mounds win and where winter rain kills them.
Growing 15 July 2026 14 min read
Cherry Pollination Groups: Why Two Trees Fail
Cherry pollination groups explained: flowering groups 1-5, the S-allele incompatibility trap, and why two cherry trees still set no fruit.
Growing 15 July 2026 13 min read
Chilean Guava: Victoria's Favourite Berry
Chilean guava (Ugni molinae) ripens in October when nothing else fruits. Hardy to about -10C, evergreen, and reputedly Queen Victoria's favourite berry.
Growing 15 July 2026 13 min read
TomTato: Does the Two-Crop Plant Work?
The TomTato grafts a tomato onto a potato. It works, but one root system feeds two crops. Our weighed verdict on yields, blight risk and who should buy.
Growing 13 July 2026 14 min read
Autumn Onion Sets for an Early Crop
Autumn onion sets and overwintering onions crop in June, weeks ahead of spring onions. Best varieties, timing and drainage, tested in Staffordshire.
Growing 13 July 2026 14 min read
Rose Hips: Harvest, Syrup and Best Roses
Rose hips: when to harvest after frost, the best roses for syrup, how to strain the irritant seed hairs safely, and feeding winter birds. Tested in the UK.
All growing guides A–Z
- 10 Easiest Flowers to Grow from Seed UK
- 20 Vegetables That Thrive in Pots: UK Guide
- 4-Year Crop Rotation: UK Allotment Plan
- 9 Climbers to Cover an Ugly Fence Fast UK
- Agastache: The Bee Magnet You Can Eat
- Allotment for Beginners
- Almonds in UK Gardens: 3 Cultivars Crop
- Autumn Raspberries: Grow and Harvest Guide
- Autumn Sowing Sweet Peas UK for Earlier Flowers
- Azaleas: Acid Soil Secrets for Big Colour
- Baptisia: The Lupin Upgrade You Plant Once
- Best Apple Varieties for UK Gardens
- Best Blackcurrant Varieties UK: 8 Bens Tested
- Best Cherry Tree Varieties UK: 12 Tested Picks
- Best Companion Flowers for UK Veg Beds
- Best Garlic Varieties to Grow in the UK
- Best Greenhouse Plants Month by Month
- Best Greenhouse Tomato Varieties UK
- Best Hardy Annual Flowers to Grow from Seed
- Best Potato Varieties for UK Gardens
- Best Tomato Varieties to Grow in the UK
- Best UK Onion Varieties: Sets vs Seed Tested
- Best UK Pear Trees: 12 Varieties Worth Growing
- Best UK Plum Tree Varieties: 12 Cultivars Tested
- Best Vegetables to Grow at Home UK
- Best Vegetables to Grow in Shade UK: 10 Crops
- Biennial Bearing: Why Fruit Trees Skip a Year
- Blight-Resistant Tomato Varieties for UK
- Borlotti Beans: Grow Italian Dried Beans
- Brunnera 'Jack Frost': Shade That Shines
- Bulbs, Corms, Tubers and Rhizomes
- Calabrese: Italian Broccoli for UK Plots
- Candytuft: Easy Edging That Self-Sows
- Cape Gooseberry Growing: Husk to Harvest
- Chervil: French Herb British Cooks Miss
- Chocolate Cosmos: Grow the Cocoa-Scented Tuber
- Chutney Recipes from the Garden
- Cloches and Low Tunnels: UK Guide
- Cold Frame Gardening UK
- Colocasia: Giant Leaves in UK Gardens
- Companion Planting Guide UK
- Container Plants That Thrive on Neglect
- Container Vegetable Gardening UK
- Corn Salad: Winter Salad That Survives Frost
- Crop Rotation Planner for UK Gardens
- Cumin Under Glass: Spice From UK Seed
- Do You Need a Greenhouse?
- Drought-Tolerant Vegetables UK: 12 Edibles
- Dwarf Fruit Trees for Small Gardens
- Dwarf Vegetables for Small Spaces
- Easy Recipes with Home-Grown Vegetables
- Easy Vegetables for Kids to Grow UK
- Edible Aquatic Plants You Can Grow and Eat
- Edible Flowers: Growing and Using Them
- Edible Garden Weeds UK: 10 Plants You Can Forage
- Exhibition Onions UK: Grow a 250g Kelsae
- F1 Hybrid vs Open-Pollinated Seeds UK
- Foraging in Your Garden: Edible Plants
- Forcing Crops for Earlier Harvests
- Free Tomato Plants From Sideshoot Cuttings
- Fruit Tree Rootstocks Explained
- Garden to Table: Growing Food at Home
- Gaura: Months of Butterfly-Like Flowers
- Giant Vegetables UK: How Growers Break Records
- Glory of the Snow: Plant It This Autumn
- Grafted Vegetable Plants: 75% More Crop
- Green Manures: UK Cover Crops Guide
- Greenhouse Growing Calendar UK
- Grow a UK Loofah: Seed to Kitchen Sponge
- Grow Edamame in the UK: A Greenhouse Crop
- Grow Fruit in Pots and Containers
- Grow Indian and Eastern Spices in the UK
- Grow Lights for Seed Starting UK
- Grow Melons in a Greenhouse UK Guide
- Grow Potatoes in Buckets and Containers
- Grow Quinoa in the UK: Sowing to Saponin Rinse
- Grow Redcurrants and Blackcurrants
- Grow Scabious for Months of Cut Flowers
- Grow Sunflowers with Children UK
- Grow Wasabi UK: Real Wasabi in 18 Months
- Grow Winter Salad Leaves in the UK
- Grow Your Own Grain: From Plot to Flour
- Grow Your Own Tea: Camellia Sinensis in the UK
- Grow Your Own Vegetables: UK Guide
- Growing a Coffee Plant Indoors: An Honest Guide
- Growing and Using Comfrey UK: Pillar Guide
- Growing Citrus Trees in the UK
- Growing Dwarf French Beans in the UK
- Growing in Grow Bags UK
- Growing Nut Trees in the UK
- Growing Patio Roses in Pots: A UK Guide
- Growing Red Hot Pokers (Kniphofia) in UK
- Growing Tomatoes in the UK: A Beginner's Guide
- Growing Vegetables in Hanging Baskets
- Growing Vegetables on a Windowsill UK
- Growing Wedding Flowers in Your Garden
- How to Force Bulbs for Indoor Flowers
- How to Freeze Garden Produce
- How to Grow Aeonium Including Pink Witch
- How to Grow Agapanthus in the UK
- How to Grow Annuals from Seed UK
- How to Grow Apple Trees in the UK
- How to Grow Apricot Trees in the UK
- How to Grow Asparagus in the UK
- How to Grow Aubergines in the UK
- How to Grow Basil in the UK
- How to Grow Beetroot in the UK: A Complete Guide
- How to Grow Bergenia (Elephant's Ears)
- How to Grow Blackberries in the UK
- How to Grow Blueberries in the UK
- How to Grow Borage in the UK
- How to Grow Bougainvillea in a UK Pot
- How to Grow Breadseed Poppies: Seed & the Law
- How to Grow Broad Beans in the UK
- How to Grow Broccoli and Calabrese in the UK
- How to Grow Brussels Sprouts in the UK
- How to Grow Cabbage: Spring to Winter
- How to Grow Carrots in the UK
- How to Grow Cauliflower in the UK
- How to Grow Celeriac in the UK
- How to Grow Celery in the UK
- How to Grow Celosia: Velvet Blooms in the UK
- How to Grow Chamomile in the UK
- How to Grow Cherry Trees in the UK
- How to Grow Chicory and Radicchio UK
- How to Grow Chilli Peppers in the UK
- How to Grow Chives in the UK
- How to Grow Coleus: Free Plants Every Year
- How to Grow Coriander Without Bolting
- How to Grow Courgettes in the UK
- How to Grow Crab Apple Trees UK
- How to Grow Cress and Watercress UK
- How to Grow Cucamelon in the UK
- How to Grow Cucumbers in the UK
- How to Grow Cut Flowers UK: Beginners
- How to Grow Damsons in the UK
- How to Grow Dill in the UK
- How to Grow Elderberry in the UK
- How to Grow Endive in the UK
- How to Grow Euphorbia: 6 Types for UK Gardens
- How to Grow Fennel (Herb) in the UK
- How to Grow Fig Trees in the UK
- How to Grow Freesias in the UK
- How to Grow French Beans in the UK
- How to Grow Fruit Trees in the UK
- How to Grow Fuchsias in the UK
- How to Grow Gardenia in the UK Climate
- How to Grow Garlic Chives in the UK
- How to Grow Garlic in the UK
- How to Grow Ginger at Home in the UK
- How to Grow Globe Artichokes UK
- How to Grow Goji Berry in the UK
- How to Grow Gooseberries in the UK
- How to Grow Grape Vines in the UK
- How to Grow Greengages in the UK
- How to Grow Hawthorn in the UK
- How to Grow Herbs in the UK
- How to Grow Honeyberry in the UK
- How to Grow Hops in the UK
- How to Grow Horseradish in the UK
- How to Grow Hostas UK
- How to Grow Impatiens (Busy Lizzie) UK
- How to Grow Iris Bulbs in the UK
- How to Grow Jerusalem Artichokes UK
- How to Grow Kale in the UK
- How to Grow Kangaroo Paw in the UK
- How to Grow Kiwi Fruit in the UK
- How to Grow Leeks in the UK
- How to Grow Lemon Balm in the UK
- How to Grow Lemon Grass in the UK
- How to Grow Lemon Verbena in the UK
- How to Grow Lettuce and Salad Leaves in the UK
- How to Grow Lingonberries in the UK
- How to Grow Long Parsnips for Show
- How to Grow Lovage in the UK
- How to Grow Magnolia in the UK
- How to Grow Marjoram in the UK
- How to Grow Marrow in the UK
- How to Grow Medlar Trees in the UK
- How to Grow Microgreens UK: Beginners
- How to Grow Mint in the UK
- How to Grow Monstera UK: Full Guide
- How to Grow Mushrooms at Home UK
- How to Grow Okra in a UK Greenhouse
- How to Grow Onions in the UK
- How to Grow Oregano in the UK
- How to Grow Oyster Mushrooms at Home
- How to Grow Pak Choi & Asian Greens UK
- How to Grow Pampas Grass (and Keep It in Check)
- How to Grow Parsley from Seed UK
- How to Grow Parsnips in the UK
- How to Grow Peach Trees in the UK
- How to Grow Pear Trees in the UK
- How to Grow Peas in the UK
- How to Grow Plum Trees in the UK
- How to Grow Pot Leeks for Show
- How to Grow Potatoes in the UK
- How to Grow Pumpkins and Squash in the UK
- How to Grow Purple Sprouting Broccoli
- How to Grow Radishes in the UK
- How to Grow Raspberries in the UK
- How to Grow Red Campion: Shade's Best Native
- How to Grow Rhododendrons UK
- How to Grow Rhubarb in the UK
- How to Grow Rocket in the UK
- How to Grow Romanesco in the UK
- How to Grow Rosemary in the UK
- How to Grow Runner Beans in the UK
- How to Grow Saffron in the UK
- How to Grow Sage in the UK
- How to Grow Salsify and Scorzonera
- How to Grow Sanguisorba: 7 Best Types in the UK
- How to Grow Shallots in the UK
- How to Grow Silver Birch in the UK
- How to Grow Sorrel in the UK
- How to Grow Spinach in the UK
- How to Grow Spring Onions in the UK
- How to Grow Sprouts and Shoots at Home
- How to Grow Strawberries in the UK
- How to Grow Sunflowers in the UK
- How to Grow Sweet Peppers in the UK
- How to Grow Sweet Potatoes in the UK
- How to Grow Sweetcorn in the UK
- How to Grow Swiss Chard in the UK
- How to Grow Tarragon in the UK
- How to Grow Tayberries in the UK
- How to Grow Thyme in the UK
- How to Grow Tomatillo in the UK
- How to Grow Trench Celery for Show
- How to Grow Turmeric from a Supermarket Rhizome
- How to Grow Turnips and Swede in the UK
- How to Grow Vanilla: 3-5 Years to Pods
- How to Grow White Currants in the UK
- How to Grow Wild Carrot and 'Dara' in the UK
- How to Grow Wild Garlic in the UK
- How to Grow Yacon in the UK
- How to Make Jam from Garden Fruit
- How to Preserve Fruit and Vegetables
- How to Start an Allotment in the UK
- How to Store Apples and Pears at Home
- How to Train Fruit Trees: Espalier
- Hungry Gap: What to Grow in Spring
- Hydroponics for Beginners UK Guide
- Jar Grown Sprouts: A UK Windowsill Guide
- Keep Supermarket Herbs Alive Indoors UK
- Landcress: Winter Salad No Greenhouse
- Lemongrass in Pots: A UK Conservatory Crop
- Leucojum: The Snowdrop That Isn't
- Lewisia: Jewel Flowers for Walls and Troughs
- Long Show Carrots: Grow 1-Metre Roots UK
- Making Herbal Teas from Your Garden
- Mangetout and Sugar Snaps: Sow to Harvest
- Medicinal Herb Garden: What to Grow UK
- Milkweed in the UK: Which Asclepias to Grow
- Mini Greenhouse Guide for Small Gardens
- Multi-Sowing Vegetables: UK Guide
- Mustard Greens: Spicy Leaves in 21 Days
- Oxalis: Ornamental Gem or Garden Weed?
- Passionflower in a Pot: A UK Container Guide
- Perennial Veg: Plant Once, Pick for Years
- Persicaria: Crimson Pokers From July to Frost
- Pickling and Fermenting Garden Produce
- Plug Plants: Postbox to Border in 6 Weeks
- Primulas & Primroses: A UK Growing Guide
- Pro Grower Tips for Better UK Tomatoes
- Raised Bed Gardening for Beginners
- Russian Sage: Drought-Proof Purple Haze
- Sea Holly: Steel-Blue Spikes on Dry Soil
- Seed Sowing Calendar UK
- Seed Tapes: How to Use Them and Make Your Own
- Show Growing: Win at Your Village Veg Show
- Show Potatoes UK: Win the Village Hall Cup
- Show Runner Beans UK: The 12-Inch Pod Class
- Show Stump Carrots UK: Prep, Lift and Stage
- Show-Winning Peas UK: Hurst Greenshaft Method
- Small Veg Garden Layout: 5 Plans That Fit
- Soil Blocking: Seed Starting Without Pots
- Sowing Biennials UK: Next Year's Spring Border
- Spinach All Year: UK Succession Sowing
- Spring Cabbage: Sow Now for the Hungry Gap
- Square Foot Gardening UK Guide
- Stop Onions Bolting: UK Prevention Guide
- Strawberry Runners: 25 Free Plants by September
- Succession Planting Guide for the UK
- Sweet Chestnuts: A 50-Year UK Tree Bet
- UK Flower Planting Calendar: 40+ Flowers
- UK Vegetable Planting Calendar
- Unusual Crops to Grow in the UK
- Veronicastrum: Tall Spires Without Stakes
- Walnuts in UK Gardens: Trees Worth Waiting
- What to Harvest This Month UK
- What to Plant in April in the UK
- What to Plant in August in the UK
- What to Plant in December in the UK
- What to Plant in February in the UK
- What to Plant in January in the UK
- What to Plant in July in the UK
- What to Plant in June in the UK
- What to Plant in March in the UK
- What to Plant in May in the UK
- What to Plant in November in the UK
- What to Plant in October in the UK
- What to Plant in September in the UK
- When to Plant Broad Beans in the UK
- When to Plant Daffodil Bulbs in the UK
- When to Plant Dahlias in the UK
- When to Plant Garlic in the UK
- When to Plant Potatoes in the UK
- When to Plant Spring Bulbs in the UK
- When to Plant Sunflowers in the UK
- When to Plant Sweet Peas in the UK
- When to Plant Tomatoes UK: 2026 Date Guide
- When to Plant Tulip Bulbs in the UK
- When to Sow Wildflower Seeds in the UK
- When to Stop Picking Rhubarb and Why
- Which Vegetables Need a Trellis?
- Windowsill Sprouts and Microgreens UK
- Winter Aconite: The First Gold of the Year
- Winter Vegetables to Grow Indoors UK
- Yellow Rattle, the Wildflower Meadow Maker