What Gardeners Grow: 600 plants chosen by the world's greatest plantspeople (6) (Bloom)

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Composting kitchen and garden waste is good for the environment, wildlife, your purse and also your garden. Bush tomatoes are easier to grow than cordon varieties, as they don't need supporting and their side shoots do not require pricking out. If possible, start off vulnerable plants, such as salad leaves and courgettes, indoors, and plant them out when they’re big enough to withstand attack. It's easy to get carried away when looking through seed and plant catalogues, so make sure you grow only what you really like, keeping experiments to a minimum.

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Exceptions to this rule include salad leaves and some herbs, which can bolt (run to seed) in full sun, and therefore do better in partial shade. Salad leaves like rocket and oak-leaf lettuce can be sown in pots and harvested on a cut-and-come-again basis, so you don't need to tend the plants for long.Japanese leafy crops such as mizuna and mibuna and Chinese mustard can be grown as cut-and-come-again leaves. Most garden pests don't do much harm to plants and can be left alone - there are plenty of natural predators that will keep them in check. Keeping an eye out for increasing numbers of pests like aphids, slugs and snails, will help keep your plants safe, and save you a lot of heartache. Also think about how long things take to grow - cabbages, for instance, are slow to mature and take up precious space all season. Red Duke of York' is an attractive red-skinned variety and 'Anya' has long tubers with a nutty taste.

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September hails Autumn and brings further harvest and jobs round the garden are now about preparing for the Winter months. The RHS Advisory Service has produced an A-Z of vegetable profiles - including growing, storing and disease problems - for numerous vegetable crops.Nevertheless, we always include them in our designs because they give body, form and, in this case as in that of many others, scent to a garden. Instead, it's best to grow crops that require little maintenance, are ready to harvest within a short time, and suffer few pests and diseases.

Vegetable planting calendar UK | Love The Garden

The Summer months arrive in June, long days and warm weather so this is one of the busiest times in the garden.This way you can work out what to grow where, rather than getting carried away at the garden centre and ending up with a jumble of plants that don't look good together and might not suit your growing conditions. So, if aubergines are your favourite vegetable, why not try growing them in your second veg-growing year, as they can be tricky to grow? Feeding is also important - generally you should be looking at feeding every fortnight during growing season (that's spring and summer), although you will need to feed more if growing in containers. Beetroot can be sown direct into shallow drills in the soil, and are ready to harvest within a few weeks.

Getting started with vegetables - help and advice on growing

Trees planted too deeply will never thrive, and root-balls that sit proud of the soil surface will dry out quickly, leading to the eventual death of the plant.With high risks of frost in February, the depths of winter is a good time to seek solace in the sowing of seeds, knowing that spring is just around the corner. I put cardboard or newspaper at the bottom, mix soil and compost, add the seeds very close together, and cover with more soil. Make sure you take time to weed and prepare the soil before planting, and add mulch or fertiliser where necessary. Occasionally we want a particular shape, such as a fountain in a flower bed, which means keeping varieties such as P. What Gardeners Grow’, a new book published by Bloom, collects into one encyclopedic volume the most treasured plants (and the stories behind them) of more than 250 gardeners.