Learn to cultivate a mini herb garden, find out where to give away your haul of homegrown greens and pick up some tips to help you give it a grow this year!
Welcome to Growing – the place to get growing advice, seasonal suggestions and celebrate the joys of looking after plants. Whether you’re nurturing tatties, cultivating herbs or sowing your first seeds in some tupperware at home, the articles, videos and photo essays we’ll be sharing over the coming months will include something for you. Pick up some pointers and find out how to get growing, learn what edible plants can be grown in small spaces, which plants prefer shade to light and how to turn a plastic bottle into a planter. Check back here often for new advice as we will be updating our Growing section throughout the Dandelion programme. Together, we’ll be taking vegetables from seed to table – because Dandelion is all about sowing, growing and sharing.
Top Tips for Brand New Growers
Whether we have a windowsill, balcony, small or large garden, we all have to learn the same basic concepts of growing when we get started.
Top Ten Plants for Windowsills
If the only growing space you have is inside your home on a windowsill, you can still have a variety of edible plants!
Top Ten Plants for Small Spaces
Learn how you can get growing, even if you don’t have a garden of your own...
In Season
In Season is our new guide to what to sow, grow and harvest month by month. If you’ve ever wondered when you can safely plant seedlings outside...
Dishing the dirt: Explaining gardening terms for growing media
Compost, soil, dirt, growing media… These are all terms you’ll hear used in gardening circles and throughout Dandelion. So, what’s the difference, and when should each be used?