Eight guides on growing what this shop sells. They are the other half of the catalogue: the product pages carry the sowing data, these carry the reasoning.
Growing guides
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Guide
What to sow this month
Twelve months, what goes in outdoors and what goes in under cover — including the months where the honest answer is nothing.
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Starting seeds under cover without a greenhouse
You do not need glass. You need light, and that is the part most people get wrong.
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Growing veg in containers and window boxes
Depth decides almost everything. Leaves need very little, roots need a lot.
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Sowing in a shaded or north-facing garden
You cannot grow fruit in the shade, and most advice dodges that. What a shaded garden grows very well is leaves.
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Succession sowing: salad all summer
Sow a short row every two weeks from March to August and the same packet feeds you from May to October.
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Overwintering: what actually survives a British winter
A short list, and there is no point padding it. Chard, winter salad under cover, and a gamble on autumn peas.
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Thinning and spacing: why crowded rows fail
More plants do not mean more food. They mean smaller food, and then no food.
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Storing leftover seed
A Value packet is not waste if you keep the remainder properly, and keeping it properly costs nothing.