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Yellow Crookneck: discover the flavour and growing

Bright yellow fruits with a curved neck give this old summer squash its own silhouette among straight courgettes. Choose Yellow Crookneck for its colour and characteristic neck. The source mentions early production, appealing if you want to try a summer type.

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Yellow Pearshaped: discover its flavour and cultivation

Small, yellow pear-shaped tomatoes offer a playful harvest rather than a round cherry truss. Choose this variety for yellow pear-shaped fruits and sweet snacks alongside round red or dark cherries.

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Yellow Wonder: flavour and growing

Pale yellow; sweet alpine strawberry.

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Sowing with a plan: a windowsill of strong plants

Choose what you want to harvest and where it will grow first. A small sowing plan gives more usable plants than a windowsill full of pots needing attention at once.

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Zebranelle: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Red-green striped fruits with dark red flesh on a slender plant: outer and inner colour each play their own role. Choose Zebranelle for sweet, spicy fruit and firm texture instead of a mainly refreshing green zebra.

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Zephyr: yellow with a green blossom end

Zephyr is a two-coloured F1 summer squash: yellow by the stalk and light green at the former flower end. Grow and harvest it young, like a courgette.

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Zinnia Profusion Cherry: a compact choice with pink flowers

Profusion Cherry combines compact growth with single, pink-cherry-red flowers. Discover the difference from tall cutting zinnias and read how to care for this choice in a bed or pot.

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Zinnia: varieties, growing and uses

Zinnias bring the colour of a summer bouquet straight into the vegetable bed. They like warmth and a sunny, sheltered position; rushing them in a cold spring will not make them stronger. Choose a tall cut flower if you want to fill vases and a compact selection for a pot or low edge. Flower shape makes a difference too: a single flower looks lighter than a large, double ball.

Illustrative species image of Sweet potato: warmth above, tubers below

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Sweet potato: warmth above, tubers below

Sweet potato makes a lush carpet of vines while storage roots grow underground. You start with slips or young plants, not seed potatoes. A warm greenhouse and a large pot are practical trial spaces; outdoors, the crop needs a long, truly warm summer.

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Summer: harvesting, watering and room for a second round

In summer, work sometimes grows faster than vegetables. A short, regular garden round brings harvests, watering and new planting together without every evening becoming a long job.

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Summer purslane

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Common vetch: varieties, growing and uses

Summer vetch fills a temporarily empty bed with climbing, feathery leaves. It is a legume that can fix nitrogen through root nodules. This makes it an interesting option alongside grass-like green manures, as long as you also leave room for the next crop.

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Sunflower: varieties, growing and uses

A sunflower need not be a yellow giant with one flower. Choose a low, fluffy bloom or a branching plant that produces a succession of smaller flowers. Let that growth habit determine the space: a low pot has different needs from a tall cutting border. Position tall plants so they do not later block sun from your fruiting vegetables.

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Growing sour cherries: a garden full of flavour

Sour cherry deserves its own place alongside sweet cherry. Grow it for tangy sauces, pies and jam, rather than treating it as a disappointing sweet cherry. Even a small harvest can add plenty of flavour to a dish; a tree you can easily reach suits that purpose.

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Sorrel: a permanent supply of fresh young leaves

Just a few young sorrel leaves add a fresh, sour note. A perennial clump beside the vegetable garden or a pot near the kitchen makes regular picking easy. Leave enough foliage for regrowth and keep the plant manageable by cutting off unwanted flower stems.

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Growing blackcurrants: a garden full of flavour

Home-grown blackcurrants have an intense flavour; the green, ripe Ojeblanc shows that a blackcurrant plant can also produce a lighter-coloured harvest.

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Zwarte reus uit Rusland: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Long, cylindrical root with black skin and a white interior. Choose this variety for long, white kitchen roots beneath dark skin. It is true scorzonera, Scorzonera hispanica, and remains separate from white salsify.

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des Andes: discover its flavour and cultivation

Long, red, pepper-shaped tomatoes with fleshy pulp and very few seeds: a mid-season processing variety. Choose des Andes for long, fleshy fruits with few seeds instead of juicy, round salad tomatoes.

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À Rames La Vigneronne: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Climbing bean with green and purple marbled pods. Choose Vigneronne for a vigorous, decorative bean support and a medium-late harvest. The same Sativa variety also appears as Weinländerin; the Dutch offering name Wijnmaakster refers to that name.