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Cucumis sativus

How to grow cucumbers: expert tips and planting advice

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Courgette plant with yellowing wilting flowers and no fruit set in summer heat

Why courgettes and aubergines stop fruiting in summer – and how to trigger a second harvest before autumn

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Hands harvesting ripe red and yellow bell peppers from a lush summer garden plant

Pepper harvest in summer: when to pick and how to maximise your yield

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Wooden balcony with pots of lettuce and salad greens in dappled afternoon shade

Growing Leafy Greens in Summer Pots: The Cool-Season Crops That Survive the Heat

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Freshly harvested French beans in a wooden trug on a garden bench in summer

Growing French beans: the complete guide from sowing to harvest

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Tomato plants with ripening red fruit under intense summer sun in a raised bed garden

The Trick That Keeps Tomatoes Producing Through a Brutal Heatwave

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Close-up of yellowing cucumber leaves on a vine in a summer vegetable garden

Your Cucumber Leaves Are Turning Yellow This Summer — Here’s What’s Really Wrong

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Courgette plant with abundant yellow male flowers but no developing fruit on the vine

Your Courgettes Are Flowering But Setting No Fruit — Here’s Why

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Close-up of a ripe red tomato split open on the vine in a summer garden

Your Tomatoes Are Splitting Open Right Now — Here’s Why It Keeps Happening

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Fresh parsley plant with yellowing lower leaves growing in a garden pot in summer sunlight

Your Parsley Is Going Yellow in June — Here’s Exactly Why

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Fresh coriander plant with feathery green leaves wilting and bolting in summer garden bed

Your Coriander Keeps Dying in Summer — Here’s the Real Reason Why

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Lush green basil plant with flower spikes beginning to form in summer garden

Your Basil Is About to Bolt — Here’s What to Do Right Now

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Gardener pruning tomato suckers on tall green tomato plants in summer garden

Do This to Your Tomatoes in June or Regret It All Summer Long

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Basics about artichoke

Key artichoke facts: from Mediterranean origins to culinary delights

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Growing spinach in pots

Spinach in containers, how to use pots for spinach

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Egypt beetroot

Flat of Egypt red beet, for an early summer harvest

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New Zealand spinach

New Zealand spinach, grow Tetragonia in your garden

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Pattypan squash, patisson

Pattypan squash, how to grow flat patisson squash

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Sweet potato

Sweet potato, a crop that grows well in cool climates

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How to grow green peas in pots

Container pea, how to grow green peas in containers

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container carrot

Container carrot, short and stout varieties are the answer!

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What is citron melon

What is citron melon? What does it look like?

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Citron melon

Citron melon, a rare melon for jam: planting, growing and care

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Helianthis - Helianthus strumosus

Helianthis, a root vegetable with beautiful flowers

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Planting eggplant

Planting eggplant, the first steps to start your crop off right

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Cuor di bue tomato, here a small one

Cuor di bue, the original beefsteak tomato

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White eggplant varieties

White eggplant, different color, taste, feel… same care!

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Caring for eggplant

Eggplant growing at last? Proper care leads to great harvests!

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Goosefoot leaves, young ones are purple

Goosefoot, more than a weed: a leaf vegetable!

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Different eggplant varieties in a crate

6 superb eggplant varieties, from egg-like to stunning black beauty

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Root parsley

Root parsley, the double-decker parsley

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Torino tomato

Torino tomato, the healthiest tomato: 10x more lycopene

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cardoon

Cardoon, planting, care, blanching

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Tomato is a fruit that many think is a vegetable

Tomato, a fruit or a veggie? The final answer.

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New varieties of tomatoes produced every year show how important this king of vegetables is for us

King of vegetables? The Tomato, of course!

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Basket with banana legs tomatoes in it

Banana Legs tomato, long and yellow, like a banana!

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Lacinato kale leaves growing lush and tall

Lacinato kale, a swarthy, dark vegetable posing as an ornamental

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Beefsteak tomato

The beefsteak tomato, a massive tomato ideal for baking

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Chufa roots with groundnuts forming

Chufa, a root vegetable that produces groundnuts

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Saint Pierre tomato

Saint Pierre Tomato, one of the tastiest tomatoes ever

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Marmande tomatoes

Marmande tomato, it harks back to the first industrial tomatoes

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Indigo rose tomato

Indigo rose, a tomato variety for small, black cocktail tomatoes

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Large, green slightly striped primora tomato

Primora tomato, a large, dark, striped variety that looks stunning in salad

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Andine cornue tomato growing on a stake

Andine cornue tomato, a horn-like tomato that’s delicious and productive

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Four roma tomatoes on the vine

Roma tomato, disease-resistant and nearly seedless

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Three honey moon tomato

Honey Moon tomato, round and firm, and tasty, too!

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Seedless tomato variety

Seedless tomato varieties to grow in the vegetable patch

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Brandywine tomato on the plant

The brandywine tomato, a large beefsteak tomato with smooth flesh

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Black zebra tomato

Black zebra, the darker striped tomato

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Black krim tomato growing on the plant

Black krim tomato, a dark-skinned tomato with a rich, meaty flesh

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Pineapple tomato, a large tomato

Meet the tasty Pineapple tomato, large and round with few pips

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