Turnip (Multi sown)
How to Grow Multisown Turnips in the UK Small turnips are at their best when lifted young, while their flesh is tender and their leaves still look fresh. Sowing a few seeds together produces a compact group you can plant as one plug. Give each clump room, maintain moisture and pick useful roots as they […]
Radish (Multi sown)
How to Grow Multisown Radishes in the UK Small salad radishes can grow in neat groups, with several seedlings sharing a planting station. Start them in modules when that helps you manage space or early conditions, then plant young clumps without separating their roots. Keep growth steady and harvest promptly: tender, useful roots matter more […]
Potatoes (Maincrop)
How to Grow Maincrop Potatoes in the UK Maincrop potatoes occupy the plot through summer and reward patient growing with tubers for late summer meals and winter storage. Choose a variety for the way you cook, from floury roasting potatoes to firm salad types. This guide covers the maincrop season of Solanum tuberosum, planted from […]
Radish
How to Grow Radishes in the UK Radishes are a quick way to put something crisp and peppery on the table from a small patch of soil. Sow a short row, keep it growing steadily and pull the roots while they are tender. The familiar little salad radish is only one option: larger winter radishes […]
Salsify
How to Grow Salsify in the UK Salsify earns its place in a vegetable patch by providing something different for the winter kitchen. Beneath its narrow blue green leaves are long pale roots with a delicate flavour, useful roasted, mashed or added to soups. This guide covers white salsify, Tragopogon porrifolius. Give it deep soil, […]
Scorzonera
How to Grow Scorzonera in the UK Scorzonera is a slow-growing root vegetable worth making room for in a winter kitchen garden. Beneath its dark skin is pale flesh with a gentle, distinctive flavour. Sow directly into a deep bed in spring, let the roots develop through summer, then lift a few at a time […]
Sweet Potato
How to Grow Sweet Potatoes in the UK Sweet potatoes bring a warm-climate crop into the kitchen garden, with trailing foliage above ground and edible storage roots beneath it. A sunny greenhouse or polytunnel gives the best chance of a worthwhile UK harvest; an outdoor crop is more dependent on a warm sheltered site and […]
Turnip
How to Grow Turnips in the UK Turnips are at their best when picked young, with crisp flesh and a mild, peppery flavour. Small sowings can provide roots for salads and cooking, plus a few tender leaves for the kitchen. They fit into a vegetable bed surprisingly easily, especially when a summer gap opens after […]
Potatoes (Early)
How to Grow Early Potatoes in the UK Early potatoes give you small, tender tubers for summer meals and release their ground sooner than maincrop varieties. Choose first earlies for the earliest outdoor harvest, or second earlies for a slightly later crop. Start with certified seed potatoes, protect new shoots from frost and keep developing […]
Fennel
How to Grow Florence Fennel in the UK Florence fennel is the vegetable grown for crisp, pale bulbs with an aniseed flavour. It needs a different approach from tall perennial herb fennel. Choose seed sold for bulb production, match the variety to its sowing season and keep growth steady. For most UK gardens, a summer […]
