Fruit Vegetable Growing Guides

Learn how to grow courgettes successfully in the UK. Simple sowing, care and harvesting advice for heavy crops on allotments

Learn how to grow strawberries in the UK on an allotment or at home. Simple, reliable methods for healthy plants and good harvests.

Grow Moneymaker tomatoes from seed to harvest with this comprehensive guide. Clear steps for sowing, potting on, spacing, cordon pruning, feeding, watering, stopping and harvest, plus a month-by-month plan and fixes for common problems.

Is your allotment full of giant courgette leaves but zero blossoms? Discover the expert secrets to triggering a flush of flowers and ensuring a bumper harvest even in a typical British summer.

Is your pepper plant all leaves and no action? From the 'Nitrogen Trap' to the 'Cold Night Stall', we diagnose exactly why your peppers aren't flowering and how to fix it for a bumper UK harvest.

Caught in the courgette glut? Learn the expert signs for picking the perfect fruit, from the ideal length to the secret of harvesting flowers, ensuring your plants produce all summer long.

Don't let your hard work go to waste with a premature harvest. Discover how to identify perfect ripeness and the essential curing secrets that keep UK pumpkins and squash fresh until spring.

Don't let your hard work go to waste with poor timing. From the 'knuckle snap' to ripening green fruit indoors, here is the definitive UK guide to harvesting tomatoes for maximum flavour.

A lush, leafy tomato plant looks great, but without flowers, there's no fruit. We explore the essential triggers to move your tomatoes from growth to flowering in the temperamental UK climate.