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Planting guides, pest identification and interactive tools, written for Scotland's seasons, soils and shorter summers.

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July in your Scottish garden

July is when the garden gives back. Daily harvesting, succession sowing for winter, and keeping the water up.

  • Pick beans, courgettes and peas every other day: the more you pick, the more you get
  • Sow kale, turnips, oriental leaves and autumn salad
  • Feed hungry fruiting crops weekly
  • Start ordering autumn onion sets and garlic before the best varieties sell out
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What to grow

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Tomatoes
Summer
Potatoes
Summer–autumn
Kale
Autumn–spring
Onions
Summer–autumn
Carrots
Summer–autumn
Peas
Summer
Garlic
Overwintering
Broccoli
Winter–spring
Strawberries
Summer
Raspberries
Summer–autumn
Leeks
Autumn–winter
Courgettes
Summer

Built for Scotland

Interactive growing tools

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Frost Date Calculator
Find your last spring frost and first autumn frost by Scottish region and altitude.
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Planting Calendar
A personalised 12-month sowing, planting and harvest calendar for your region.
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Seed Spacing Visualiser
See exactly how many plants fit your bed, with a visual spacing grid.
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Garden Myths
Pick your crop and see which common claims about it hold up, and which are simply wrong.
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Crop Rotation Planner
Plan a rotation to keep soil healthy and reduce soil-borne disease.
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Know the signs

Common pests and diseases

Potato Blight
Rapidly spreading, watery rot of the leaves, which soon collapse, shrivel and turn brown.
High risk
Onion White Rot
Yellowing and wilting foliage, especially in dry conditions; root and bulb decay; and white fungal growth at the bulb base, later developing small black sclerotia (resting structures).
High risk
Cabbage White Caterpillars
Large white caterpillars are yellow and black with obvious hairs; small white caterpillars are pale green and covered in short, velvet-like hairs.
Medium risk
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Our difference

Built for Scotland

North of the border

Advice written for our climate, our soil, our seasons

Shorter summers, Atlantic weather, and frost that tracks altitude and distance from the sea rather than postcode. Every guide accounts for what makes Scottish growing different from the rest of the UK.

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Complete guides

Growing guides for Scotland

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Ripe tomatoes on the vine, grown under cover in Scotland
Vegetables · Scotland
Growing Tomatoes in Scotland: The Complete Guide

Why a polytunnel changes the answer, when to sow against your own last frost, and how to handle blight.

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Freshly dug potatoes from a Scottish vegetable bed
Vegetables · Scotland
Growing Potatoes in Scotland: The Complete Guide

Earlies to maincrops, chitting and earthing up, and the blight pressure that defines the Scottish season.

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Potato leaves showing the dark, water-soaked lesions of blight
Pests · Identification
Potato & Tomato Blight: Identification and Control in Scottish Gardens

How to recognise it early, why no fungicides are available to gardeners, and what actually reduces risk.

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Dark green kale leaves growing in a Scottish garden bed
Vegetables · Scotland
Growing Kale in Scotland: Varieties, Sowing and Winter Harvests

Kale improves with frost. Choose the right variety for your site and harvest from July through March.

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A freshly harvested bunch of carrots with leafy tops, grown in Scotland
Vegetables · Scotland
Growing Carrots in Scotland: Soil, Sowing and Carrot Fly Defence

Carrot fly is the number one problem north of the border. Timing, barriers and resistant varieties that work.

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Ripe red raspberries on the cane in a Scottish fruit garden
Fruit · Scotland
Growing Raspberries in Scotland: Summer and Autumn Varieties

Scotland grows outstanding raspberries. Choose summer-fruiting for June, autumn-fruiting through to October frosts.

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