Vegetables
Grow tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots and potatoes with confidence, in beds, containers or grow bags. Practical advice on sowing, watering, feeding and solving common problems like yellow leaves.
How to Grow Potatoes in Grow Bags
Grow potatoes on a patio or balcony: the right bag size and variety, chitting, planting and earthing up, watering, and when to tip out the harvest.
How to Grow Carrots in Containers and Pots
Carrots grow well in pots with the right variety and depth. Container sizes, sowing, thinning, watering and carrot fly tips for straight, sweet roots.
How to Grow Tomatoes: A Complete Beginner's Guide
Everything a first-time grower needs: choosing varieties, planting deep, watering, feeding, pruning, and fixing problems like blossom end rot and split fruit.
How Often Should You Water Vegetable Plants?
How much water vegetables need, when it matters most for each crop, how to tell when to water, and the methods that waste the least. Includes a crop table.
Why Are My Tomato Leaves Turning Yellow? 8 Causes
Match the yellowing pattern on your tomato plant to its cause, from harmless old leaves to hunger, watering problems, blight and wilt, and fix it fast.
How to Grow Cucumbers From Seed to Harvest
Choose the right cucumber, sow it warm, plant out after frost, train it up a support, water evenly and pick often. Fixes for bitter fruit and mildew too.