Grow at Home

How to go about it

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Sowing direct outside

Preparation, sowing & after-care:
Comprehensive guide
from the RHS

Illustrated guide
fom Gardeners’ World

Sowing seed indoors

Sowing seeds indoors:
Tips from Gardeners’ World

Pricking out & potting on:
Video from Gardeners’ World
Schoolgardening video RHS

Growing salad & herbs

Growing salad leaves
Gardeners’ World guide

Herbs in containers
RHS guide with video

Choose your herbs
Guides to individual herbs

Growing vegetables

Seed sowing techniques:
Comprehensive RHS guide

Transplanting:
RHS guide

Successional sowing:
RHS guide

Choose your vegetables:
Individual growing guides

Growing potatoes

A guide to
Potatoes for Christmas
by the RHS

West Dean Gardens video
Planting potatoes
by Head Gardener, Tom Brown

Another way to grow potatoes
Growing potatoes in bags
from Barry Newman’s talk

Comprehensive guide
How to grow potatoes
from Gardeners’ World

GROW YOUR OWN SALAD

Tom Brown, Head Gardener at West Dean Gardens, shows how.

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