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Olivia Rose Austin: growing rose

Soft pink flowers for a calm border.

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Harvesting and storage: give every harvest its own place

A good storage harvest starts with careful picking and sorting. Leaves, roots and dry bulbs do not all belong in the same basket or storage conditions.

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Nasturtium: varieties, growing and uses

Round leaves, cheerful flowers and a peppery surprise on your plate: nasturtiums instantly give a vegetable garden a relaxed, lively look. Choose the growth habit first. A compact variety stays rounded in a pot, while a long-trailing type tumbles over a container edge or covers a frame. More fertiliser does not automatically make the plant more attractive: too much feed can mainly produce lots of leaves.

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Opal: flavour and growing

Purplish-red skin, yellow flesh.

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Orangette: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Small, juicy, bright orange cherry tomatoes add warm colour beside red and dark snacks. Choose Orangette for orange colour and a described sweet-acidic note rather than large, orange beefsteak tomatoes.

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Oranje Sunset: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Oranje Sunset combines light green leaves with orange stalks. This gives even a simple leafy harvest a clear colour accent. Choose this variety for orange stalks rather than a variable colour mixture. The confirmed colour is its strongest distinction.

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Oregano: varieties, growing and uses

Oregano can give a sunny herb border scent, flowers and a kitchen supply all at once. Look beyond the cushion of pink flowers: a culinary green form, a variegated selection and a related species really do look different in the garden. Buy a culinary plant when flavour is your aim.

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Ormato: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Orange snack tomatoes of approximately 12–18 grams on an open plant with often-branched trusses. Choose Ormato for orange fruit and a manageable, open crop beside yellow or dark cherry tomatoes.

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Osella: flavour and growing

Blue; large sweet berries.

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Ostara: flavour and growing

Perpetual-fruiting; medium-sized, sweet and aromatic.

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Oullins Gage: flavour and growing

Self-fertile greengage.

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Owari Satsuma: flavour and growing

Mild, seedless, easy to peel.

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Ozarkblue: flavour and growing

Later; large berries.

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Padrón: discover its flavour and cultivation

The Galician tapas chilli is usually picked young and green: a variety for small pan-cooked portions. Choose Padrón for recognisable tapas and many small, green pickings rather than uniform hot sauce.

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Painted Hills: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Multicoloured sweetcorn on plants potentially around two metres tall, developed through a targeted American cross. Choose Painted Hills for multicoloured cobs and a slightly sweet profile. It is a named selection whose colours can vary between cobs.

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Growing pak choi: crisp stalks from a bed or container

Pak choi offers two enjoyable harvest choices: young loose leaves for a quick meal, or a whole plant with firm leaf stalks. A small late-summer sowing helps you get to know the crop. A container works too if you provide space, moisture and protection for the young leaves together.

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Growing cavolo nero: a green leaf tower for garden and kitchen

Cavolo nero bears long, often dark, blistered leaves along an upright stem. It is an attractive edible plant for a bed or generous pot. Pick gradually from the bottom and leave new growth at the top. Do not automatically expect Tuscan types to have the same winter hardiness as Dutch curly kale.

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Pamplemousse du Grand-Père: discover its flavour and how to grow it

A large French beefsteak tomato, slightly flattened and ribbed, with orange and pink veining in skin and flesh. For anyone seeking a pineapple-like appearance and wishing to compare the relatively earlier alternative described by the supplier; it remains a mid-season tomato.

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Pantos: discover its flavour and how to grow it

A vigorous mid-late variety with conical, red fruits and thick, juicy flesh. Choose Pantos when thick, juicy flesh matters more than the earliest possible harvest.

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Growing sweet peppers: warmth, gentle support and colour on the plant

A sweet pepper in a large pot can bring colour to a balcony for weeks. In a greenhouse, the plant enjoys a longer warm season. See how a loose tie supports a fruit-bearing branch and follow the fruit from young green peppers to your variety’s final colour.

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Growing Parmex: round carrots for a bed or pot

Parmex forms small, round carrots. Discover when this variety makes sense for heavy or stony soil and how to approach pots, emergence and harvesting practically.

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Pastiche: growing sunflower

A named annual Helianthus annuus selection from the RHS list.

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Growing parsnips: steady sowing for a long root harvest

Parsnips need little spectacle above ground and plenty of room below. Sow fresh seed directly in a deep bed, keep the row clearly marked and give germination time. Later, you can lift one root for an autumn meal and leave the rest in the ground.

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Growing pattypans: small saucer fruits from a summer bed

Pattypan is a summer squash with a distinctive scalloped shape. A young, small fruit is often the tastiest introduction. A bush variety needs a spacious bed or a generous pot; do not let the harvest grow too large out of sight beneath the broad leaves.

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