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Top Tips on What Vegetables to Grow in April
The wait is over. Spring has arrived and the garden is suddenly blossoming! If you haven’t yet started to sow vegetable seeds, there is still plenty of time. Better yet, the ground should be warm enough for you to sow directly outdoors. If you sowed seeds in early spring, many of the crops will now be ready to plant out. Here are our top tips for what you can grow in your garden in April.…
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Top Tips on What Vegetables to Grow in March
Spring is here, and the garden is bursting into life! It’s time to get outside and make the most of this exciting time of year. Read on for our top tips on what to be doing in the vegetable garden in March. Sowing and Planting Sow in the Greenhouse Sow winter brassicas in seed trays and tomato seeds in heated propagators. You can now also start your regular sowing of cut-and-come-again salads, to keep you…
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Your February Garden: Top Tips & Advice
February, the last of the winter months, often brings with it some very cold temperatures. It may still be too early to be planting most things outdoors, but there is still plenty to enjoy, particularly in the vegetable garden, plus plants to prune and protect. Read our guide to February gardening jobs to find out what to do now, what to plant this month and helpful gardening tips from our Hillier experts to keep…
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Your December Garden: Top Tips & Advice
The first of the winter months is here, bringing with it the shortest day of the year. With colder temperatures and less daylight hours, this is a month often best spent cosying inside, dreaming about your New Year gardening plans. There are, however, plants to enjoy outside and inside the home plus delicious vegetables to harvest for warming soups and casseroles. What to Enjoy Now The rich red berries of skimmia, brightening up the…
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Grow Your Own | What To Do in October
In the vegetable garden, October is the time to finish your harvest for many plants. It is also a good month to clear your vegetable plot ahead of winter, taking care of any crops that you plan to leave in throughout winter. Sowing & Planting Sowing Outdoors There are a small number of crops that can be sown now and left to overwinter. Sow over-wintered broad beans, garlic, autumn-planting onions / shallots - including spring…
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Winter Gardening Checklist
As daylight hours drop and the temperature falls, activity in the garden increasingly involves cosying up inside and dreaming about New Year plans. There are, however, plants to enjoy outside on winter walks, some core gardening activities, plus vegetables to harvest for warming soups and casseroles. To help your gardening efforts, we have created a winter checklist with activities to do this season and helpful advice from Hillier experts. Read, download and bookmark or print the checklist below. >> Download Your Winter Garden Checklist Your…
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Successful Grow Your Own with VegTrug
It is no surprise that ‘grow your own’ continues to surge in popularity. You can be 100% confident about where your food produce comes from and how it was grown, along with the incredible sense of satisfaction of picking and eating something you’ve lovingly grown yourself. From large allotments to simple windowsill pots; vegetables, fruit, salad crops and herbs can be grown at any sort of scale. One ‘grow your own’ specialist, VegTrug, has designed…
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Butternut Squash & Sweet Potato Soup Recipe
Serves: 6 Time: 1 hr 10 minutes A filling soup, packed with the rich flavours of the season. Perfect for a hearty autumn lunch. Ingredients 1 large onion, peeled & chopped2 garlic cloves, peeled & chopped500g peeled butternut squash500g peeled sweet potato50ml olive oil1 tablespoon ground cumin1 teaspoon of ground ginger1 ½ litres vegetable or chicken stockSalt and freshly ground black pepperToasted pumpkin seeds to garnish Method 1. Heat the oil in a pan. Add…
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The Allotment Diaries | No 2 Braving the Cold
Steve Harrison, Plant Area Manager at Hillier Garden Centre Newbury, is an expert in growing and caring for plants. But this year, a kindly neighbour has given him a piece of allotment and for the first time he is turning his hands to allotmenteering. In the second installment, he continues growing and sowing and tackles the unseasonably cold April weather. No.2 Braving the Cold | April 2021 "At the allotment, there have been a lot…
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