Practical British Gardening
Helping you grow your own food with practical gardening advice, seasonal inspiration and real-world allotment growing.
In the garden this month
Start Your Gardening Journey
Simple, beginner-friendly growing guides designed to help you build confidence and grow successfully in UK gardens, containers and allotments.
Featured Growing Guides
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Carrots
Easy-to-follow carrot growing advice covering sowing, thinning and harvesting sweet, healthy roots.
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Tomatoes
Step-by-step tomato growing advice for raising healthy plants and harvesting flavour-packed fruits.
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Potatoes
Practical potato growing guides covering planting, earthing up, harvesting and solving common potato problems.
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Peas
Simple growing guides for productive pea crops, including sowing, support methods and harvesting tips.
Real growing advice inspired by allotments, kitchen gardens and seasonal living.
About Wellies and WaxJackets
Wellies and WaxJackets shares practical British gardening advice inspired by real allotment growing, seasonal living and a love of growing your own food.
Latest from the garden
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Clearing an Overgrown Bed
A realistic step-by-step look at turning an overgrown garden bed back into productive growing space.
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Dealing With Slugs Naturally
Simple, practical ways to reduce slug damage naturally without relying heavily on chemical pellets.
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The Allotment in Early Summer
Longer evenings, fast-growing crops and the first real harvests make early summer one of the busiest and most rewarding times on the allotment.