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Illustrative species image of Aubergines: give your purple harvest a warm start

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This image was created with AI from described plant characteristics and growing advice. It shows a possible situation and is not a photograph of a verified cultivar.

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Aubergines: give your purple harvest a warm start

A shiny aubergine among large leaves and purple flowers is a lovely sight in a summer garden. The plant grows slowly in cold conditions and needs a long, warm season. In the Netherlands and Flanders, a greenhouse or a large sheltered pot usually offers a better starting point than an open, windy bed.

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Illustrative species image of Gherkins: small cucumbers for regular picking

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Gherkins: small cucumbers for regular picking

Gherkins grow quickly enough to change your garden rounds. Hidden behind a leaf, a small fruit can soon become too big for your intended use. A sturdy frame makes finding them easier; growing on the ground works too if you provide space and a dry surface.

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Aunt Ruby’s German Green: discover its flavour and cultivation

Large, green-ripe tomatoes often weighing several hundred grams: redness does not determine ripeness here. Choose this variety to learn to recognise green-ripe fruit and compare large salad tomatoes.

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Aurea: growing lemon balm

Green leaves with yellow-variegated edges.

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Aurora: flavour and growing

Sweet elongated berries.

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Growing Autumn Bliss raspberries: autumn fruit and targeted pruning

Autumn Bliss is an autumn-fruiting raspberry with red fruit. Learn what this choice means for position, canes, pruning and harvest without promising a fixed local yield or harvest month.

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Autumn Bliss: flavour and growing

Autumn-fruiting cultivar with red berries.

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Avalon Pride: flavour and growing

Some peach leaf curl tolerance, no immunity.

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Awesome Emma Cherry: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Small, round cherry tomatoes on a vigorous, productive plant: a variety for repeated summer pickings. Choose Awesome Emma Cherry when regular, small, flavoursome portions matter more than a few large beefsteak tomatoes.

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Azur Star: discover its flavour and cultivation

Azur Star is an early kohlrabi with a blue-purple exterior and white interior. The slightly flattened swollen stem grows above ground. Choose Azur Star for earliness and a clear outer colour. It is not an underground swollen root.

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Baby Boo: discover its flavour and cultivation

Miniature, cream-coloured, strongly ribbed, flattened squash: small fruit on a plant that may still need considerable growing space. Choose Baby Boo for small, pale autumn fruit that also looks attractive on the table. Small fruit does not automatically mean a small container plant.

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Balconi Geel: discover its flavour and how to grow it

A compact bush with round, yellow tomatoes for balconies and patios. Choose Balconi Geel if limited space and easy care matter greatly. Bushy, compact growth distinguishes it from yellow climbing tomatoes needing a tall stake.

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Bambino: discover its flavour and how to grow it

A squat plant full of round, purple cocktail aubergines: small fruit is the distinction here. Choose Bambino for container growing and small portions. Its early character is useful when greenhouse space or the warm season is limited.

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Banana Legs: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Pale yellow, elongated tomatoes resemble small bananas and may retain fine, light green stripes. Choose Banana Legs for long, yellow fruit on a relatively low crop rather than small, yellow pear cherries.

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Barbentane: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Early, long aubergines with strikingly smooth, very dark purple skin create Barbentane's recognisable appearance. Choose Barbentane for an early, long shape without the pronounced pale stripes of Listada de Gandia.

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Barblanca: growing white clover

Low white clover cultivar for longer-lasting cover

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Barrington Belle: growing peony

Open dark red to burgundy flowers with golden stamens.

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Basil: varieties, growing and uses

Warmth, tender tips and a scent you notice as you walk past: basil turns a small pot into a summer harvest spot. Put an ordinary green basil beside lemon basil and a purple form to taste much more than the familiar pesto herb.

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Bearss: flavour and growing

Large, normally seedless; yellow when fully ripe.

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Start a small vegetable garden you enjoy tending

A few accessible beds, pots and fixed places for equipment make a good start. Choose crops you want to eat and a scale that suits your time.

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Bekya: growing yacon

Light brown skin and white crisp flesh

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Belle de Boskoop: flavour and growing

Firm, slightly coarser flesh with a pleasant aroma; for cooking and fresh use.

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Belleville: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Belleville is a named sorrel with relatively low, somewhat heart-shaped leaves. It can persist in a permanent position. Choose Belleville when sour green leaves are the growing aim. The species differs from milder patience dock and from red-veined sorrel.

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Beluga: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Small, round, black beans for a cooked pulse meal. Choose Beluga for a black, dry harvest and a small growing trial. Semailles describes growing as difficult and low-yielding; do not plan a guaranteed large supply.