Depending on the time of year, you’ll need to choose from autumn-planting or spring-planting onion sets. Here’s a quick summary of each to help you decide.
Growing Vegetables
Whether you're gardening in containers, an allotment or a corner of your garden, you'll find helpful information and advice in the vegetable section. From planting in winter to growing veg in summer, we've got you covered!
Understanding plant seeds: F1 hybrids vs open-pollinated varieties
To help you make a fully informed choice, we asked allotmenteer Rob Smith to explain the difference between F1 hybrid seeds and open pollinated plant seeds.
Broad beans masterclass: best expert content
Follow these top tips from experienced garden bloggers and Instagrammers to grow your own bumper crops of broad beans.
New Fruit & Vegetable Seeds 2024!
Thompson & Morgan is proud to launch its fantastic new fruit and vegetable seed range for 2024, including heart-shaped cherry tomatoes, fast-growing chillies, black-coloured peppers, sweeter-tasting broccoli and super-sized basil.
Carrots and parsnips masterclass: best expert content
Here’s everything you need to know to grow the perfect crunchy crop of carrots and parsnips.
The rough guide to beans by Real Men Sow
To help you produce an abundance of beans this year, we turned to an expert grower for practical advice. Jono, the original founder of the ever-popular gardening blog, Real Men Sow, is a man whose own hard-won experience has taught him how to get the best from his...
Oh peas behave!
A first blog from Sam Corfield, all about growing the unusual Pea ‘Shiraz’!
How to store vegetables
If you’ve grown a wonderful harvest of fresh fruit and vegetables but don’t know how to store it correctly, you’ve come to the right place. Learning how to prepare and store your fresh produce stops good food from going to waste and helps you to enjoy eating it for a...
Onions masterclass: best expert content
Whether you prefer to plant onion sets in autumn or spring, or you want to grow huge, exhibition-sized bulbs that you’ve carefully nurtured from onion seeds, here are some top tips…
The difference between onions and shallots
Here we explain the differences between onions and shallots and explore why both are equally worth growing in your veg patch.