Vegetable Growing Guides

🌱 Beginner Guides | 🥔 Potatoes |🍅 Tomatoes | 🥕 Carrots | 🥬 Lettuce | 🧅 Onions

🫛 Peas & Beans | 🥒 Cucumbers | 🥦 Brassicas

Why Grow Your Own Vegetables?

Growing vegetables is one of the most rewarding aspects of gardening.

Benefits include:

  • Fresh produce straight from the garden
  • Lower food bills
  • Better flavour than many supermarket vegetables
  • Reduced food miles
  • Improved physical and mental wellbeing
  • A great way to involve children in gardening

Whether you have an allotment, raised beds, a small garden or even just a few containers, there are vegetables suitable for every growing space.

Popular Vegetables to Grow

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  • Sowing and Growing Carrots

    Sowing and Growing Carrots

    Why Grow Carrots? While the yield is moderate and they are relatively affordable, the fact that conventional carrots are heavily sprayed makes organic options essential. Carrots also stand well in...

    Sowing and Growing Carrots

    Why Grow Carrots? While the yield is moderate and they are relatively affordable, the fact that conventional carrots are heavily sprayed makes organic options essential. Carrots also stand well in...

  • Sowing and Growing Kale

    Sowing and Growing Kale

    Why Grow Kale Forget everything you know about supermarket kale or what you've read in gardening books—kale is far better than you think! It offers a wide range of flavours...

    Sowing and Growing Kale

    Why Grow Kale Forget everything you know about supermarket kale or what you've read in gardening books—kale is far better than you think! It offers a wide range of flavours...

  • Sowing and Growing Lettuce

    Sowing and Growing Lettuce

    Why Grow Lettuce It is especially nutritious, particularly the red varieties, and often expensive in stores, especially mixed bags. Lettuce is highly productive, especially when harvested leaf by leaf, and...

    Sowing and Growing Lettuce

    Why Grow Lettuce It is especially nutritious, particularly the red varieties, and often expensive in stores, especially mixed bags. Lettuce is highly productive, especially when harvested leaf by leaf, and...

  • Sowing and Growing Calabrese (Broccoli)

    Sowing and Growing Calabrese (Broccoli)

    What is Calabrese? Calabrese, better known as green broccoli in supermarkets, is a member of the brassica family, much like cauliflower and purple sprouting broccoli (PSB). It produces a large...

    Sowing and Growing Calabrese (Broccoli)

    What is Calabrese? Calabrese, better known as green broccoli in supermarkets, is a member of the brassica family, much like cauliflower and purple sprouting broccoli (PSB). It produces a large...

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Vegetable Growing by Season

  • Spring

    The busiest sowing season of the year.

    • Potatoes
    • Peas
    • Carrots
    • Beetroot
    • Lettuce

  • Summer

    Planting continues while early crops begin to harvest.

    • French beans
    • Courgettes
    • Sweetcorn
    • Salad crops

  • Autumn

    Harvesting and winter preparation.

    • Maincrop potatoes
    • Pumpkins
    • Onions
    • Beetroot

  • Winter

    Planning, soil improvement and seed ordering.

    • Crop planning
    • Composting
    • Seed selection
    • Tool maintenance

Growing Vegetables in Different Spaces

  • Vegetable Gardens

    Traditional vegetable plots provide maximum growing space and flexibility.

  • Raised Beds

    Excellent drainage, improved soil quality and easier maintenance.

  • Containers

    Ideal for patios, balconies and small gardens.

  • Allotments

    Perfect for gardeners wanting larger harvests and more growing room.
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Common Vegetable Growing Problems

  • Slugs & Snails

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  • Bolting

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  • Poor Germination

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These crops are productive, forgiving and ideal for building confidence.

Beginner Vegetable Growing

Courgette

Beetroot

Potato

Lettuce

Peas

Our Favourite Vegetables to Grow

  • At Wellies and WaxJackets, potatoes, peas and tomatoes remain some of our favourite crops. They're productive, rewarding and perfect for gardeners of all experience levels. We believe every gardener should grow at least one crop they love to eat.

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