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Growing pawpaws: a garden full of flavour

Pawpaw brings a tropical-tasting flavour to a tree you can follow in your garden. It is a long-term project with unusual flowers and soft fruit. Start with two demonstrably different selections, a permanent spot and a plan to observe pollination yourself.

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Growing pears: a garden full of flavour

An espalier pear can turn a bare fence into a harvesting spot, while a freestanding tree gets its own corner of the garden. Choose deliberately between eating crisp fruit and letting it soften after picking. A pear tasted too early reveals little of its eventual character.

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Pegasus: flavour and growing

Late; large sweet fruit.

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Comparing chillies and sweet peppers: one warm crop, different harvest choices

Capsicum annuum includes sweet peppers and many hot chillies. They share basic needs for warmth, light and steady root growth, but fruit size, flavour and harvest stage differ. Use this group article to choose your project, then read the specific article for chillies or sweet peppers.

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Growing chillies: a warm crop with its own picking rhythm

A chilli plant is a little project for the season: start it early, grow it in warmth and watch new fruits develop. A generous pot on a sheltered patio or a spot in the greenhouse makes care manageable. Choose variety and heat level carefully; a fruit's colour does not tell you how hot it tastes.

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Pepperoncini: discover the flavour and growing

An old Italian selection with fruits approximately 7–10 cm long, green-yellow turning red, on a vigorous, compact plant. Choose Pepperoncini for preserving small, milder chillies rather than an extremely hot habanero.

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Peregrine: flavour and growing

White flesh.

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Persuasion: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Pink, round to oval fruits with green and golden stripes and indigo accents: a mid-season selection by Brad Gates. Choose Persuasion for multicoloured pink fruits and described storage suitability, rather than for a uniformly red selection.

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Growing peaches: a garden full of flavour

With a peach, you grow a fruit that you can let reach just the right moment for eating. A fan against a wall also makes it easy to see which young shoots you keep. Compare white and yellow flesh, rather than only the red blush.

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Parsley: varieties, growing and uses

Parsley deserves more than a role as a garnish. A robust flat-leaved variety can be the mainstay of a salad; a tightly curled form adds structure along the edge of a container. Two leaf shapes immediately offer variety without needing ten similar names.

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Petit vert de Paris: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Small, elongated gherkins for a fine cornichon harvest: the intended picking size is approximately 4–5 cm. Choose this variety for small, even portions rather than large slicing cucumbers. It needs frequent plant checks.

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Growing mangetout: along a frame or among low pea sticks

A tall mangetout frame creates a green wall you can pick from both sides. Dwarf varieties fit a smaller bed with pea sticks. In both cases, harvest the young, flat pod; do not accidentally let it develop as though you wanted to collect garden peas.

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Phacelia: varieties, growing and uses

A vacant strip need not stay bare. Phacelia tanacetifolia fills it with finely divided leaves and curled flower clusters where something new keeps opening. You can use the plant as a flower strip or temporary green manure. Decide that purpose in advance: a strip flowering for insects for a long time is cleared at a different point from green manure that must not spread seed.

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Phoenix: flavour and growing

White; wine, muscat.

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Pilgrim: flavour and growing

Also suitable for growing in pots.

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Peanut: varieties, growing and uses

A peanut plant flowers above ground and forms its pods below it. This makes it a fascinating trial in a warm greenhouse or large pot. In the Netherlands and Flanders, it is mainly a growing experiment: a long, warm growing period matters, and a sizeable harvest is not guaranteed.

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Pink Champagne: flavour and growing

French pink selection; valued flavour.

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Pink Fir Apple: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Long, knobbly salad potato with a nutty flavour profile. This variety suits anyone wanting an unusual salad potato who can wait for a late harvest. Reserve a few plants for a tasting dish if you have a small potato bed.

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Pink Jumbo Banana: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Large, salmon-coloured, cylindrical fruits have a long, banana-like shape: a squash capable of filling a large bed. Choose Pink Jumbo Banana for long, salmon-coloured fruits and many portions rather than small culinary fruits.

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Pink Lemonade: flavour and growing

Pink ripe berries.

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Peony: varieties, growing and care

A peony has a permanent spot where you can watch it emerge every spring. Some varieties open airy flowers with visible centres; others produce large, double flowers that may need support. This guide covers herbaceous Paeonia lactiflora. Choose by flower form, colour and available space, and give a new plant time to establish.

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Piquillo: discover its flavour and how to grow it

A sweet pepper with a rich, full flavour for anyone wanting to use the harvest in a cooked dish. Choose Piquillo when a described full flavour matters without necessarily seeking a large bell pepper.

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Plainpalais: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Plainpalais is a Geneva Savoy cabbage selection with flattened heads. Head shape gives a concrete distinction among green cabbages. Choose this variety for flattened heads and documented cooler-condition growing. It does not replace local winter assessment.

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Supporting and tying plants without constriction

Support keeps plants accessible and can reduce damage. Suitable ties allow thickening and movement; tight string around a young stem can itself cause problems later.