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Blue Velvet: flavour and growing

Early; slow-growing.

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Blush: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Elongated, yellow-orange tomatoes with red stripes and refreshing sweetness. Choose Blush for small fruit of about 50 grams on trusses. It offers a snack size longer and larger than most round cherry tomatoes.

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Bobby: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Bobby is an early, green broccoli with a relatively long stem. It is described for summer-to-autumn harvesting. Choose Bobby when an early, green central head fits your late-summer plan. Use stated days only as a guide.

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Bodoana: discover its flavour and how to grow it

A cucumber with longer, heavier fruit than Gundel, with which the supplier compares it; harvest-focused and recognisable in shape. Choose Bodoana for classic cucumbers and a relatively early start compared with Gundel, not as a compact snack plant.

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Buckwheat: varieties, growing and uses

Buckwheat can fill a temporary summer plot with fresh foliage and small white to pale pink flowers. It is not a cereal grass but a member of the knotweed family. That different family makes it interesting when you want an alternative to familiar brassicas and legumes.

Illustrative species image of Kale: pick your winter meal leaf by leaf

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Kale: pick your winter meal leaf by leaf

Planting kale in summer gives you a garden you can still harvest from later. Small young leaves can reach the kitchen earlier; large winter plants offer a different rhythm. Choose a height, leaf colour and growing period that suit your bed and how you want to pick.

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Boldor: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Orange outside with a bright yellow interior. Choose Boldor for colour variety and reasonably even swollen roots. A row beside a red variety makes harvesting and assembling a colourful meal appealing.

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Growing Boltardy: round, red beetroot in a bed or pot

Boltardy forms round, dark red beetroot and, according to RHS, resists bolting. Read how to choose a site, assess seedlings and plan a useful harvest, with separate advice for a spacious pot.

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Bonanza: flavour and growing

Dwarf growth.

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Savory: varieties, growing and uses

Savory is a lovely discovery if you already know thyme and oregano. Choose an annual summer plant, a perennial winter shrub or a low creeping form. The difference also affects how you design a herb bed.

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Tree spinach

Tree spinach combines green leaves with striking pink young shoots. Despite the word ‘tree’, it is a tall annual leaf crop.

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Beans: choose low growth or climbing first

Beans can fill a low row or turn a climbing frame into a green wall. Then choose your harvest: young pods, flat-podded beans or ripe seeds. This guide covers common garden beans of Phaseolus; broad beans have their own cooler growing route.

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Boreal Beast: flavour and growing

Aromatic; pollinator for the Boreal series.

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Boreal Beauty: flavour and growing

Later, firm, broad berries.

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Boreal Blizzard: flavour and growing

Noticeably large fruit; relatively low acidity.

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Borlotto: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Mottled beans with red pods from a low plant. Choose this variety for a colourful dried bean harvest on dwarf plants. It suits storage growing when you want to leave a bed to ripen after fresh summer beans.

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Boskoop Glory: flavour and growing

Blue; thin skin.

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Spring onions: a small row for fresh flavour

Spring onions need little width and provide a familiar harvest: a pale stem with green leaves. Sow small batches to spread the supply. Some varieties barely form a bulb, while others swell a little more; choose the type and pick at the young stage you want to use in the kitchen.

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Bouche de Bétizac: flavour and growing

Hybrid, productive; no pollen.

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Boule d’Or: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Round, smooth turnip with yellow-orange flesh. Choose this variety for a smooth, round shape and a described sweet aroma. It suits an early fresh harvest and several small sowings.

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Bourbonne: discover its flavour and how to grow it

An old French variety with long, thin, lightly hairy green fruits and two usable harvest sizes. Choose Bourbonne if you enjoy experimenting with both gherkin size and table cucumber without planting two crops.

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Growing blackberries: a garden full of flavour

A thornless blackberry can form an edible boundary. The fruit hangs freely along wires, without having to search through a wild bramble hedge.

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Brad’s Atomic Grape: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Small, elongated plum tomatoes combine purple, green, red and blue nuances: a multicoloured variety, not a seed mix. Choose Brad’s Atomic Grape for a long mini shape and several colours in one variety rather than a mix of unknown plants.

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Bramley's Seedling: flavour and growing

Cooking apple; triploid.