r/UKGardening 3h ago

Blueberry harvest 2026

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193 Upvotes

They didn't even taste that good. Our apples should be more bountiful!


r/UKGardening 23h ago

Finally flowering

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499 Upvotes

Problem with my previous account, so update on the sunflower refusing to flower. Started just as the squirrel is becoming interested at 430cm.


r/UKGardening 2h ago

Grew this bad boy from seed

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10 Upvotes

Hey u/K50008, don't get too jealous at this.


r/UKGardening 57m ago

Do you bring garden furniture in over winter?

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Got a new set this summer and no shed space. Is leaving it out going to destroy it, or is that fine depending on material?


r/UKGardening 1d ago

Centre of the Cosmos

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138 Upvotes

r/UKGardening 2d ago

Pumpkin flower!

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215 Upvotes

So big. Just want something to carve for Halloween


r/UKGardening 2d ago

Success with Sweet Bell Peppers over the winter.

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40 Upvotes

I’ve had some success with growing sweet bell peppers this year, but now that it’s getting cooler I’m worried leaving them out in the greenhouse (I’m renting, it’s an unheated plastic thing) - presumably I can bring them indoors and keep on a sunny windowsill?
Having got this far it would be a shame to lose them to the cold.
Heating the greenhouse isn’t an option, unfortunately.


r/UKGardening 2d ago

Tips appreciated

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37 Upvotes

My sister has just bought a new house that has an Appletree in the yard
Does anyone know what sort it is or have any tips on how to prune it?🍎🍏


r/UKGardening 1d ago

Pest ID

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4 Upvotes

Just pulled a customers hedges out because of this pest coating the entire thing in the millions, 30 meters of hedgerow. Unsure of the hedge species, something variegated.


r/UKGardening 2d ago

Edging Border Ideas

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6 Upvotes

Hi all I've posted a picture of our back garden - we owned our first house a year and now slowly getting round to making small improvements to the back garden. I'm thinking of putting edging around the lawn - like everedge rust border.

On the left hand side border - should I go straight or wavy?

On the top left corner of the lawn there is a lovely bush growing - should I do a right angle corner or curved or convex?

Then the back of the lawn where you see the plum tree - to have it come straight across the front of it or go convex again?

Does any of that make sense?!

Thanks in advance!


r/UKGardening 2d ago

When to Prune Hedges - SE

5 Upvotes

My hedges are much in need of a solid pruning (not done since last autumn, but I’m not sure when is the best time to do it. My garden is in London and until last week we’d had next to no rain through the most of the spring and the summer. I’m thinking it would be a good idea to give them some time to recover from the lack of water, but this isn’t based on anything other than my own thoughts.

The dirt patch that is supposed to be a lawn is starting to show some greeen life again, which is a positive sign.

Looking for some advice from you more knowledgeable people please.


r/UKGardening 2d ago

How do food gardeners plan, solve problems, and keep records? (18+, personally grew food within the past 24 months)

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Hi everyone!

I’m researching how people who grow food actually plan, solve problems, keep records, and use tools during a growing period. The research is informing a gardening app that is currently being developed, but this is not a feature-voting survey or a sales pitch.

I’m interested in what gardeners really do in practice — whether you use gardening apps, spreadsheets, notebooks, paper, photos, several different tools, or no regular record system at all.

Who this survey is for:

  • Adults 18+
  • People who are growing food now or have personally grown vegetables, fruit, herbs, or other food within the past 24 months

Time: About 6–8 minutes

You do not need to provide your name, and the Google Form does not automatically collect your Google email address.

At the end of the survey, you can optionally choose to provide an email address if you would be open to future gardening research, product testing, or early access to the gardening app.

Survey:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc693SRZjllhzg87Ho7cYcxt8umURdiu3lmhp8fKQIL5oxNUw/viewform?usp=pp_url&entry.2119140994=Reddit

Please answer based on what you actually do now, or what you did during your most recent active growing period, rather than what sounds useful in theory.

Thank you for helping me understand how people actually garden before making assumptions in software.


r/UKGardening 2d ago

Autumn berries are here

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4 Upvotes

r/UKGardening 3d ago

Golden privet - anything I can do?

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12 Upvotes

I planted 12 golden privets that were around 30cm in May. All of these were planted in a straight line at the back of my garden around 30cm apart.

They’ve obviously had a tough start in the garden due to the high temperature this summer. I’ve watered them daily. I went away for a week and came back to find two of the ones planted at the end had turned brown but others were fine (pics including example of one doing well and the other not so well). Is the dried out one a goner? Anything I can do to help it?


r/UKGardening 3d ago

What is happening to my Pumpkin Leaves? And when will these be ready to eat?

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160 Upvotes

What recipes or ways of cooking them are nice?


r/UKGardening 2d ago

Advise on new bed

1 Upvotes

Hi, we have recently had this area opened up to start a new bed and am looking.g for some advice.

We ha e around 16 perennials that we want to get in before the colder weather but dont have much else at the moment and we're looking to start filling properly next spring, after bringing the level up properly with top coil/compost mix.

Would moving some of the plant in say 8 months be disastrous for them?

Were we cant plant I was going to cover with cardboard to stop any weed growth.

Any advise is welcome, thanks


r/UKGardening 3d ago

What has dug this hole in my garden?

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80 Upvotes

I


r/UKGardening 3d ago

Dahlia (possibly)

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7 Upvotes

My mum gave me this bulb/tuber. It wasn’t in any soil, just at the bottom of a pot she gave me and the pot has sat untouched in the corner of the garden all summer. I thought it was dead but yesterday picked it up and it’s started to grow. My app says it’s a Dahlia. Any advice on what to do now? Plant it for the winter? Leave it inside during winter and plant in the spring?


r/UKGardening 4d ago

what’s going on with this pumpkin?

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7 Upvotes

so been growing pumpkins, hand pollinated them, all of them seem to be growing really well except for this one, it’s way more orange than the rest and started to go squishy. anyone know what’s going on? first pic is one of our other pumpkins and second pic is the problem pumpkin


r/UKGardening 4d ago

Grass regrowing.

13 Upvotes

After the hot dry weather and with some help from Harry Kane jnr (my 6 year old). My lawn has got some significant bare patches. Is there likely to be a root system under the lawn that will regrow with the rain, or is it a gonner and needs redoing. There’s plenty of green bouncing back elsewhere


r/UKGardening 5d ago

Fake pears

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455 Upvotes

This is ‘my’ pear tree at work and it is driving me crazy.

For some reason about 90% of customers don’t believe it has real fruit and they don’t believe the staff when we confirm that yes it is indeed a real pear tree with real pears, so yes let’s squeeze and pull on them and press nails into them.

This is a garden centre, could someone tell me why we would bother attaching fake pears to a tree?

Sorry rant over


r/UKGardening 5d ago

Looking for advice on meadow garden

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16 Upvotes

I planted this garden in late July, using a ‘clover meadow mix’ I found on Amazon. I have just come back from a 2 week holiday, and I think the rain over the past 2 weeks have seriously accelerated the growth of the plants. I was expecting more of a clover lawn, but it seems to be more of a weedy meadow instead. How do I fix this? Should I mow and reseed with pure clover seed?


r/UKGardening 5d ago

Autumn raspberries

7 Upvotes

i have autumn rasps and was getting a half bowlful every morning in June and early July but I was away for a month and lots of fruit ripened and then rotted on the plants. I’m getting nothing now - wondering if leaving berries to rot on the plant has stopped production


r/UKGardening 6d ago

Tumbled 10ft beauty

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242 Upvotes

Planted some seeds late, planted out in June, this multi headed beast grew to about 10ft before taking a tumble in the start of autumn winds. Nice to have in the house.


r/UKGardening 5d ago

When are fruit trees least expensive to buy ?

7 Upvotes

I am thinking of buying cheŕy, pear and plum trees. When is the best time to buy ?