Herbs, vegetables, urban farming and connecting food to its source.
Transform your kitchen windowsill into a productive herb garden. This complete guide covers the best varieties, light and soil requirements, watering schedules and harvesting techniques for growing fresh herbs indoors year-round.
You don't need a large garden to grow your own vegetables. This beginner's guide covers container growing, raised beds, the best easy crops, soil preparation, sowing schedules and how to keep pests at bay — everything you need to harvest your first homegrown food.
Microgreens are among the most nutrient-dense foods you can eat and among the easiest to grow at home. This complete guide covers the best varieties, the science behind their extraordinary nutrition, the exact growing method, and how to use them in everyday cooking.
Tomatoes are the most popular home-grown vegetable in the world for good reason — a sun-ripened tomato picked fresh from the plant bears almost no resemblance to a supermarket alternative. This complete guide covers everything from variety selection to harvest.
Composting converts kitchen and garden waste into the most effective and lowest-cost soil amendment available. This practical guide walks you through the science of decomposition, what to add, how to maintain the pile, and how to use the finished compost.
Salad leaves are the most accessible, fastest and most continuously rewarding crops for any kitchen gardener. With the right varieties and a simple succession planting plan, you can harvest fresh, flavourful greens every week of the year.
Limited space is no barrier to growing your own fruit. Espalier training, dwarf rootstocks and container growing have made it possible to harvest apples, pears, cherries and plums from the smallest urban gardens — this guide explains how.
Chillies are among the most rewarding crops a home grower can attempt — producing continuous harvests of extraordinarily flavourful pods in a huge range of heat levels, colours and shapes from a single plant on a sunny windowsill or patio.
The UK climate makes tomato growing a genuine challenge, but entirely achievable with the right variety choices and techniques. This guide covers determinate vs indeterminate varieties, greenhouse vs outdoor growing, pinching out laterals, blight prevention, companion planting with basil, and watering science to prevent blossom end rot.
A productive windowsill herb garden is achievable in any home, but most attempts fail within weeks due to easily avoidable mistakes. This guide covers which herbs genuinely thrive indoors, soil and drainage requirements, light needs by species, harvesting to encourage growth, why supermarket pot herbs die so quickly, and container selection.
The no-dig gardening method, developed and rigorously documented by Charles Dowding over three decades at his Somerset market garden, produces yields equal to or better than conventional digging while building soil health rather than degrading it. This guide explains the soil science, cardboard mulching, compost depth requirements, and which crops suit no-dig best.
Home composting converts kitchen and garden waste into the most valuable soil amendment available, but most backyard heaps underperform because of easily corrected imbalances. This complete guide covers hot vs cold composting, the carbon-to-nitrogen ratio, greens and browns classification, what not to compost, turning frequency, troubleshooting common problems, and bokashi as a kitchen alternative.
新鲜的香草能改变烹饪方式，而自己种植香草比大多数人想象的要简单得多。本指南涵盖了所有内容：从选择香草、土壤、浇水到收获和保存。
西红柿是全球最受欢迎的家庭种植蔬菜。可持续农业专家逐步讲解每个阶段：品种选择、土壤准备、种植、施肥、修剪和收获。
大蒜是家庭种植者最值得投资的作物之一——秋季种植，夏季收获，味道远胜于超市中的大蒜。本指南涵盖了从品种选择到 curing 的所有内容。
堆肥将食物废料转化为最有价值的土壤改良剂。本初学者指南涵盖热堆肥和冷堆肥、正确的材料、常见问题的解决方案以及使用成品堆肥的方法。
从自己的种植空间获取新鲜沙拉蔬菜——即使是窗台——是最容易且最有回报的食品种植项目之一。以下是如何在任何空间、任何季节种植生菜、芝麻菜、菠菜和微型蔬菜的指南。
辣椒是最值得种植的作物之一 — 高产、意外简单，能够生产商店里没有的品种。完整的从播种到收获和储存的指南。
没有花园？没问题。番茄、辣椒和西葫芦在容器中生长良好，并在正确的种植方式下丰收。这是阳台、露台或门口的高效容器蔬菜种植指南。