Growing advice

Growing advice.

Real answers, sorted by what you are growing. No chemistry required.

Start here

Three good places to begin

Basics Houseplant Care for BeginnersLight, water, pots and problems, answered plainly.
Calendar When to Feed PlantsWhen to feed houseplants, lawns, veg and flowers.
Explainer What Is Natural Plant Food?Where our plant food comes from, and what natural means.

All the guides

Pick what you are growing

Each group has its own feed, and its own guides.

Houseplants

For the plants on your sills and shelves.

Tend, our houseplant food

Flowering plants

Baskets, pots, borders and bulbs.

Bloom, our flowering plant food

Fruit and veg

For what you grow to eat.

How to Feed Tomatoes and VegetablesStage by stage, crop by crop.

Beanstalk, our fruit and veg food

Lawns

For the bit everyone walks on.

Lawn Feeding BasicsWhen a feed helps, and when to leave well alone.

Green, our lawn feed

Soil

Sort the soil, then plant.

How to Improve Garden SoilTest your soil, then improve it.

Soil Improver

Basics and explainers

The ideas behind the advice.

How we write these

Practical, and honest about the limits

Every guide is written for gardeners, checked against the RHS and other horticultural sources, and clear about which parts are general gardening advice and which parts are what is printed on our labels. Where sources disagree, we say so.

Not sure which one you need?

What are you growing?

Tell us what you're growing and we'll name the feed.

HouseplantsWindowsills, shelves, side tables Flowering plantsBaskets, pots and borders Fruit & vegThe veg patch, the allotment, the pots LawnA lawn that's had a season SoilBeds and borders, before planting