Edible Grow Guides A–Z
Ready to grow something delicious? Find practical guides for vegetables, fruit, salad greens and culinary herbs, with help from sowing and germination through to plant care and harvest.
Browse by name below, then choose your variety in its guide. Some guides cover several varieties or mixes. Where edible and ornamental plants share a guide, follow the clearly identified edible crop instructions and safety advice.
59 grow guides, including 12 culinary-herb cross-listings. This counts guide destinations, rather than seed products or individual varieties.
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Artichokes Grow Guide
From seed to established plants and edible flower buds.
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Basil Grow Guide
Culinary herb cross-listing: sowing and care for basil varieties.
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Beans Grow Guide
Bush and climbing beans for the vegetable garden.
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Beetroot Grow Guide
Sowing and care for colourful roots and leafy tops.
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Broccoli / Calabrese Grow Guide
Grow Green Sprouting Calabrese for a home harvest.
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Brussels sprouts Grow Guide
From seed to plants with compact sprouts along the stem.
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Cabbage Grow Guide
Choose your variety and follow sowing and care advice.
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Cape gooseberries Grow Guide
Grow Cape gooseberry plants and learn about ripe fruit.
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Caper Grow Guide
Grow a caper bush and learn about its buds.
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Carrots Grow Guide
Sowing, establishment and care for garden-grown roots.
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Cauliflower Grow Guide
Raise plants and care for developing heads.
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Celery Grow Guide
From small seedlings to leafy plants and stems.
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Chives and garlic chives Grow Guide
Culinary herb cross-listing: grow these two related herbs.
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Coriander Grow Guide
Culinary herb cross-listing: growing coriander leaves and seed.
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Cucumbers Grow Guide
Choose your cucumber variety and follow its growing advice.
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Dill Grow Guide
Culinary herb cross-listing: sowing and care for dill.
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Edible flower and herb mix Grow Guide
A mixed planting; follow the guide’s plant-identification and safe-use advice.
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Egg fruit / Aubergines Grow Guide
Sowing, establishment and fruiting care for aubergines.
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Fennel Grow Guide
Culinary herb cross-listing: choose the instructions for your fennel type.
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Garden cress Grow Guide
Grow a compact crop of leafy cress.
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Kale Grow Guide
Edible Chou Moullier, Vates Blue Curled and Kale Storm; ornamental kale is distinguished in the guide.
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Kohlrabi Grow Guide
Raise plants for their swollen stems.
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Leeks Grow Guide
From seedlings to established plants and harvest.
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Lemongrass Grow Guide
Culinary herb cross-listing: establish and care for lemongrass.
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Lettuce Grow Guide
Choose leafy or heading varieties for your salad garden.
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Marog Grow Guide
Leafy amaranth growing advice for Marog and Marog Red.
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Mealies Grow Guide
Grow green mealies and follow the guide through to harvest.
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Melons Grow Guide
Hales Best melon sowing, growing and fruiting care.
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Mizuna Grow Guide
Grow leafy Japanese mustard greens.
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Mustard Grow Guide
Leafy mustard varieties and their growing needs.
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Okra Grow Guide
From seed to plants bearing tender pods.
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Onions Grow Guide
Sowing and growing advice for the listed onion varieties.
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Oregano Grow Guide
Culinary herb cross-listing: sowing and care for oregano.
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Pak choi Grow Guide
Grow leafy plants with crisp stems.
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Parsley Grow Guide
Culinary herb cross-listing: grow leafy parsley varieties.
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Parsnips Grow Guide
Sowing and care for long-rooted plants.
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Peas Grow Guide
Choose your peas and follow sowing, support and care advice.
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Peppers and chillies Grow Guide
Sweet peppers and hot chillies, with variety-specific details.
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Pumpkins Grow Guide
From seedlings to vines and mature pumpkins.
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Radicchio Grow Guide
Grow colourful chicory leaves and heads.
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Radishes Grow Guide
Root varieties and separately identified microgreen guidance.
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Rape greens Grow Guide
English Giant Essex rape growing advice.
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Rhubarb Grow Guide
Victoria rhubarb establishment and care; follow the guide’s stalk-only safety advice.
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Rocket Grow Guide
Grow rocket leaves for the salad garden.
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Rosemary Grow Guide
Culinary herb cross-listing: from seed to a woody herb plant.
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Sage Grow Guide
Culinary herb cross-listing: common culinary sage.
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Simply Salad mixes Grow Guide
Summer Picnic and Wonder Wok; Kale Storm appears in the Kale guide.
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Sorrel Grow Guide
Growing and caring for leafy sorrel.
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Spinach and Swiss chard Grow Guide
Find the instructions for your spinach or chard variety.
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Squash Grow Guide
Choose your squash variety and follow its sowing and care advice.
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Strawberries Grow Guide
From seed to plants and ripe fruit.
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Sweetcorn Grow Guide
Sowing, establishment and care through to sweetcorn harvest.
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Tarragon, Russian Grow Guide
Culinary herb cross-listing: Russian tarragon from seed.
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Tatsoi Grow Guide
Grow leafy rosettes for your vegetable garden.
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Thyme Grow Guide
Culinary herb cross-listing: Summer and Winter thyme.
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Tomatoes Grow Guide
Variety guidance from seed sowing to fruiting care.
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Turnips Grow Guide
Sowing and care for roots and leafy growth.
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Ubuntuberg edible mixes Grow Guide
Salad and Herb Garden mixes; Bee Food is a pollinator planting.
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Watermelons Grow Guide
Grow vines and follow their care through to ripe fruit.
Start with the crop you would love to harvest, then follow its grow guide for sowing, establishment and ongoing care. Use the guide’s plant-identification and food-safety advice before harvesting from any mixed planting.
