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As part of our comprehensive grow your own category, Plant Me Now have a full range of vegetable seeds.  We review our seeds each year to make sure we're always up to date and offering something new and also something a little different.
For the 2010/2011 season, we'll be stocking among other seeds a full range [...]

Asian style cuisine is on the rise in the UK and many people like to cook using authentic oriental ingredients.  Shiitake mushrooms have a meaty or smokey flavour and their firm texture makes them popular in dishes like stir-fries, soups and gravy.  Follow this simple method below to learn just how easy it is to [...]

Dahlia tubers are available in many eye catching colours and exotic shapes to give you a spectacular show of colour in borders,beds or even containers. They have long been a favourite with gardeners as they are hardy and low maintenance.
Always plant your dahlia tubers in the spring and select tubers which are free from cuts and [...]

One of the UK's leading online garden centres is backing the BBC Breathing Places 'Save Our Bees' campaign by offering some fantastic deals on Wildflower Seeds.
The BBC 'Save Our Bees' campaign has been launched as part of the broadcasters National Science Week and are giving away free packets of Wildflower Seeds in an effort to [...]

When you were younger did you try to grow mustard and cress seeds on soggy pieces of blotting paper and then end up throwing them away because you didn't fancy eating the end result? Well the good news is that this method of growing seeds has now been revolutionised by the sprouter unit and the [...]

Tomatoes are a kitchen favourite and many of us have attempted to or have successfully managed to grow our very own tomatoes at home. Tomatoes are however, not the easiest fruits to grow and become even more complex if we choose to grow them outdoors. In the UK tomatoes grown outdoors will require adequate shelter [...]

Tomatoes are a hugely popular fruit that can commonly be found in greenhouses across the UK throughout the summer months. Whilst some gardeners prefer to grow their tomatoes outside, for others it is much easier to ensure they have fruit from June through to October by growing tomatoes indoors in a greenhouse or grow house.
Tomatoes [...]

Lilium or Lilies as they are more commonly known are a genus of herbaceous flowering plants that are commonly grown by gardeners from bulbs. It is estimated that there are around 110 different species within the genus or lily family known as the Liliaceae. The name Lilium is a Latin form derived from the Greek [...]

The Impatiens Walleriana or Busy Lizzie as it is more commonly known is a garden favourite and can be found in gardens across the world. With over 850 species the Impatiens genus is native throughout the Northern Hemisphere with the Walleriana being found more pre-dominantly in the Eastern African regions of Kenya and Mozambique.
Over the [...]

Begonias belong to the genus Begoniaceae, a flowering plant family that is native to the subtropical and tropical regions of South and Central America, Africa and Southern Asia. Unusually the genus has only one other family member in the form of the Hillebrandia, a flowering plant native to the Hawaiian Islands.
The name Begonia was coined [...]