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Grow your own: 121 plants for UK gardens
Pick something you like to eat and see when to sow it, how to grow it, and when to pick it, written so a 10-year-old can follow it.
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Vegetables
- 🔴 Radishes
- 🥬 Salad leaves
- 🫛 Peas
- 🫘 Broad beans
- 🧄 Garlic
- 🧅 Onions
- 🌱 Spring onions
- 🥔 New potatoes
- 🥒 Courgettes
- 🍓 Strawberries
- 🥬 Swiss chard
- 🟣 Beetroot
- 🫘 Runner beans
- 🫘 French beans
- 🌿 Rhubarb
- 🥕 Carrots
- 🍅 Cherry tomatoes
- 🍅 Big tomatoes
- 🎃 Butternut squash
- 🛸 Summer squash
- 🍠 Sweet potatoes
- 🥒 Cucumbers
- 🎃 Pumpkins
- 🌽 Sweetcorn
- 🥬 Kale
- 🥬 Leeks
- 🥕 Parsnips
- 🍇 Raspberries
- 🫐 Blueberries
- 🌶️ Chillies
- 🫑 Sweet peppers
- 🥦 Purple sprouting broccoli
- 🥦 Cauliflower
- 🥦 Brussels sprouts
- 🍈 Melon
- 🍆 Aubergine
Herbs
Flowers
- 🌸 Sweet peas
- 🌻 Sunflowers
- 🌸 Cosmos
- 🌺 Zinnias
- 💙 Cornflowers
- 🩵 Love-in-a-mist
- 🌺 Dahlias
- 💜 Lavender
- 🪻 Salvia 'Caradonna'
- 🌹 Roses
- 🪻 Lupins
- 🌷 Tulips
- 🌼 Daffodils
- 💛 Violas & pansies
- 🟣 Hardy geranium 'Rozanne'
- 🩷 Hardy fuchsia
- 🤍 Japanese anemone
- 🩵 Forget-me-nots
- 💠 Hydrangea
- 🌿 Hostas
- 🌿 Ferns
- 🤍 Hellebores
- 🤍 Snowdrops
- 💮 Sweet Williams
- 🐉 Snapdragons
- 🟣 Petunias
- 🔴 Bedding geraniums
- 💙 Trailing lobelia
- 🌺 Begonias
- 🩷 Busy Lizzies
- 🟣 Alliums
- 💜 Crocuses
- 🪻 Hyacinths
- 🔵 English bluebells
- 🌷 Lilies
- 🌺 Gladioli
- 🌸 Coneflowers (echinacea)
- 🌼 Black-eyed Susans (rudbeckia)
- 💜 Verbena bonariensis
- 🌸 Hollyhocks
- 🔵 Delphiniums
- 🌸 Peonies
- 🪻 Granny's bonnets (aquilegia)
- 🩷 Astilbes
- 🍁 Heucheras
- 🌼 Primroses
- 🌺 Poppies
- 🟣 Clematis
- 🌼 Honeysuckle
- 💜 Buddleja (butterfly bush)
Companion plants
- 🌸 Nasturtiums
- 🌼 French marigolds
- 🧡 Calendula (pot marigold)
- 💙 Borage
- 🍳 Poached egg plant
- 💜 Phacelia
- 🤍 Sweet alyssum
Fruit trees and bushes
- 🍎 Eating apple
- 🍏 Cooking apple
- 🍐 Pear
- 🟣 Plum
- 🍒 Cherry
- 🫐 Damson
- 🟤 Fig
- 🌰 Hazelnut / cobnut
- 🌳 Tree (no fruit)
- ⚫ Blackcurrant
- 🔴 Red or white currant
- 🟢 Gooseberry
- 🫐 Blueberry
- 🍇 Blackberry (thornless)
- 🍇 Loganberry
- 🫐 Blackberry 'Waldo'
- 🤍 Elder
- 🌿 Bush (no fruit)
What to sow, month by month
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