Growing guides for UK growers
Practical advice for home gardeners and allotment holders, from sowing windows to crop rotation to plant health.
Growing guides
Calendar
Vegetable Growing Calendar for UK Growers
Month-by-month guide to sowing, planting, and harvesting across the UK growing season.
Calendar
Vegetable Harvest Calendar for UK Growers
What's actually ready to pick each month — from early potatoes and garlic in June to leeks and kale in winter.
Carrots
When to Sow Carrots in the UK
Sowing windows, soil temperature requirements, successional planting, and avoiding carrot fly.
Tomatoes
When to Plant Tomatoes Outside in the UK
How late frosts run across the UK, when to sow, hardening off, and outdoor varieties.
Plant Health
Why Are My Tomato Leaves Yellow?
How to diagnose and fix the most common causes of yellow tomato leaves.
Potatoes
When to Harvest Early Potatoes in the UK
The flowering cue, the test-dig method, and timing by planting date.
Garlic
When to Harvest Garlic in the UK
When the leaves tell you it's ready, and how to cure bulbs properly for storage.
Allotment
How to Plan Crop Rotation on an Allotment
The four-bed rotation explained: what grows where, what it protects against, and how to keep track of it.
Small Space
Small-Space Vegetable Gardening: The Complete Guide
No allotment, no problem. How to grow a useful harvest in a small, shaded, or container-only garden.
Shade
What Vegetables Grow in Shade?
Which vegetables genuinely tolerate a shady garden, and which ones won't crop without full sun.
Containers
How to Grow Vegetables in Pots and Containers
Which vegetables do well in pots, what size container each needs, and how watering and feeding change.
Month by month
- Allotment Jobs by Month
- What to Plant in July
- What to Plant in August
- What to Plant in September
- What to Plant in October
- Growing Vegetables for Beginners
- Companion Planting for Vegetables
How to grow
When to sow or plant
- When to plant garlic in the UK
- When to plant tomatoes outside in the UK
- When to sow carrots in the UK
- When to plant potatoes in the UK
- When to plant onions in the UK
- When to sow broad beans in the UK
- When to sow peas in the UK
- When to sow runner beans in the UK
- When to plant courgettes outside in the UK
- When to sow beetroot in the UK
- When to sow lettuce in the UK
- When to plant pumpkins and squash in the UK
What to plant after a crop comes out
- What can I plant after this crop?
- What to plant after potatoes
- What to plant after garlic
- What to plant after onions
- What to plant after broad beans
- What to plant after peas
- What to plant after lettuce
- What to plant after spinach
- What to plant after radishes
- What to plant after beetroot
- What to plant after carrots
- What to plant after brassicas
- What to plant after tomatoes
Crop rotation
Frost dates and Vercro data
When is it ready? Harvest guides
- When to harvest onions and shallots
- When to harvest maincrop potatoes
- When to harvest carrots
- When to harvest beetroot
- When to harvest parsnips
- When to harvest leeks
- When to pick tomatoes
- How to ripen green tomatoes
- When to pick courgettes and marrows
- When to harvest pumpkins and winter squash
- When is sweetcorn ready to pick?
- When to harvest broccoli
- When to pick Brussels sprouts
- When to pick peas
- When to pick runner beans and French beans
- When to pick broad beans
- When to harvest cabbage
- When to harvest cauliflower
Spacing and how many fit
Pots, containers and raised beds
Your first allotment
Storing, sowing and soil
Vercro
How Vercro works
Your beds, your postcode’s forecast and the few jobs that matter each morning.
Garden Planner App for UK Vegetable Growers
Raised beds, a greenhouse and pots on the step, kept track of.
Allotment Planner App
Every bed on your plot, and what it needs this week.
Allotment Layout Planner
Your plot as a plan: now, this autumn and next spring.
Free and Pro
Free. Not a free trial. What’s included, and what Pro adds.
Put the knowledge to work
Vercro keeps track of your own beds and crops, and each morning shows the few jobs that matter, from your postcode’s forecast and how far along each crop is.
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