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After the heatwave of May, June has started with a few welcome showers and warm days and will help to settle in those freshly planted areas. This is a busy month planting out all the tender crops and bedding plants for the summer ahead.

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Transplanting seedlings (also known as pricking out) is an important step when growing your own vegetables or flowers from seed. Learn how to transplant correctly with Andrew.

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When you start growing your own vegetables, you'll need to know which vegetables to sow when. Have a look at our handy growing calendar, which will help you with your plan. Created for the british climates.

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Although May can often be very warm it is always wise to watch the weather forecast this month, as we can still have some cold nights and frosts, so please remember to have some fleece ready just in case you need it to protect any of those tender plants that you have been tempted to plant out.

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April can be a busy month in the flower and vegetable garden. Although the nights are getting lighter and the soil is drying on nice sunny days, the nights are still cold as is the soil at the moment. Many gardeners get itchy fingers this month and want to start sowing everything, but please wait until the weather conditions and soil temperature has improved before you start sowing too many small seeds outside.

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March has arrived, and after the mild warmer days at the end  February the soil is starting to dry out . Although spring has arrived there is no need to panic as there is  plenty of time to get on outside once the weather and soil conditions improve over the coming weeks. Plus there are still some jobs you can get on with undercover.

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Here's what you should do with seed potatoes once they have arrived.

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It may be wet and cold outside and the soil too wet to do much in the garden, but at least the days are gradually getting longer, this means February can be a busy month for seed sowing under glass or on a warm windowsill, a job that can be done whatever the weather.

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Happy New Year! The start of a new gardening year is always a time to reflect an what worked well last year and to take time to think of what you wish to do better this year and what new plants you may want to grow.

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Many of our Sweet Pea Seeds come from our own premises in Kelvedon,Essex. Watch our behind the scenes video showing the Sweet Pea Cycle, from soil to shelf.

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