W&W Garden · Reference library
Gardening
Guides.
The practical side of W&W Garden. Growing food, starting from scratch, keeping an allotment, gardening through the seasons and finding the answer when you're not quite sure what to do next.
Start with the subject you need. From there, we'll take you to the detailed guides rather than making you hunt through the whole site.
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What do you need help with?
Go straight to the Crop Directory.
Tomatoes, carrots, beans, potatoes, brassicas and more. If you already know what you're trying to grow, skip the browsing and find its guide.
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Practical guides worth keeping handy.
Some jobs need more than a quick answer. These are the longer W&W guides for getting started, working things out and coming back to when you've forgotten what you did last year.
Growing Potatoes
Choosing varieties, buying seed potatoes, chitting, planting, growing, problems, harvesting and storage — all in one place.
Container Gardening
What grows well in pots, how to choose containers and how to keep plants productive when space is limited.
Practical guideSeed Sowing, Step by Step
From dry seed to healthy young plant, including light, watering, potting on and the problems that catch beginners out.
First plotStarting an Allotment
What to do when you finally get the keys — without trying to clear, rebuild and plant the entire plot in one weekend.
Not sure where to start?
What are you trying to do?
You don't need to know the gardening terminology. Pick the thing you're actually trying to achieve and start there.
Gardening gets much easier once you stop trying to learn everything at once. Find the next useful answer, do that, then come back when you need the one after it.