Grow Your Own - September 2022

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PLOT-TO-PLATE recipes from Kew Gardens KEEP GROWING
WITH THE
September 2022
RHS
4 GET ONIONS IN
THE GROUND
4 EXPERIMENT WITH
HYBRID FRUIT
4 SAVE SEEDS FOR
NEXT YEAR
CARRY ON
HARVEST
PLANTING
The veg to help you
TIME!
extend the season
How to get the best
WHY YOU
from your crops SHOULD GO
ORGANIC

75+ +10 Organic
myths – busted!
See page 44
GARDEN JOBS CHARLES
TO DO NOW
DOWDING
Breed your
own plants
Picking methods to
Easy ways to a productive
maximise success
and resilient plot
Mark Lane Anne Swithinbank Nick Bailey
Make the most Grow your Plan next year’s
of the shortening best ever blooms for your
days sweetcorn space
Sow green manures: Why you should add these beneficial plants to your garden

Editor’s Letter
WELCOME H O
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… to the September issue of Grow
Your Own! A month of rewards in the
garden, trugs are full to bursting and M
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it is time to make the most of those I
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EDITORIAL late summer pickings! We have TSTOYO U.
Editor
plenty of advice on getting the best from your harvests
Laura Hillier
– from drying to freezing, pickling, and much more Can’t get enough of
[email protected]
(page 70). I personally can’t wait to get started with Grow Your Own?
Senior Content Creator
my annual batch of chilli jam! Catch up on any mags
Emily Peagram
[email protected] It isn’t all about harvests, however! There is still you’ve missed with
Content Writer plenty to be done in the veg garden to keep your single issues from Gifts
Sophie King space productive. RHS experts are on hand to share To You by heading to
[email protected] their top tips on growing onions (page 24), cauliflower giftstoyou.co.uk
DESIGN and romanesco (page 28), hybrid fruits (page 27) and
Art Director James Philp collecting seeds (page 30). Mark Lane is discussing
Designers how to make the most of the time in the shortening days (page 20), Anne
Debbie Pratt, Shannon Hall, Swithinbank is getting to grips with sweetcorn (page 18), Nick Bailey is
Hannah Kemp, Ben Kemp,
starting bulbs (page 14), and lots more!
Samantha Rogers
Now is also a great time to start looking into sowing green manures (page
PHOTOGRAPHY
36), and we are celebrating Organic September by taking a look at some of
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the common myths and misconceptions around organic growing (page 44).
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September’s
CONTENTS
Smart gardening
50 Smart news
52 Smart step-by-step: Windowsill garden
54 Smart guide: Breed your own plants
Fruit and veg
12 Jobs on the plot
18 Anne Swithinbank: Sweetcorn
36 Plot essentials
42 David Domoney: Sweet treat fruits
74 Bulb masterclass
RHS
24 Beginners’ guide: Onions
27 Edible exotics: Hybrid fruits
28 Growing guide: Cauliflower
and romanesco
30 RHS method: Saving seeds
32 RHS watering guide 18
34 RHS diary dates
Regulars
7 This month
8 Have your say 57 73
14 Nick Bailey’s blooming bulbs
17 Charles Dowding: Harvesting skills
20 Mark Lane
46 Subscribe today
67 #growwithgyo
81 Ellen Mary: Hops
More growing advice
39 Sow your bonus seeds!
44 Top 10 organic gardening misconceptions
48 Emily’s top 5
57 Ask the experts
60 Organic September
64 Garden Organic masterclass: Wormeries
70 Simple storage solutions
73 Crops to sow and harvest
76 Under cover
78 Allotment essentials
85 Tried and tested: Garden clearance
88 Allotment inspirations
90 Kew Gardens recipes
94 Reader offers
98 Behind the scenes with Daisy Payne
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Garden report
T his month…
NEWS
in brief
Stay up to date with all the latest growing news
Lewisham Healing Garden
The National Trust has
A new Healing Garden is in the works at University launched its first horticultural
Hospital Lewisham by the RHS and the Lewisham and scholarship with a view to
Greenwich NHS trust. Initiated by Maria Leong, a UHL ‘cultivate head gardeners of
anaesthetist registrar, and designed by Adam Frost, the future’. The Sissinghurst
the garden is the first in a stream of regional Healing Scholarship will begin this
Gardens. Its purpose is to provide an outdoor space of September and aims to
calm and reflection for the staff, patients and community. enhance successful applicants’
Over 200 local volunteers have been trained to maintain understanding of a range
the gardens and build their skills. Various sensory of horticultural topics, from
elements will exist within the space, which has been soil management to plant
transformed from a previously under-used area of land. health. There will also be a
The garden is looking to be finished this autumn. Go to focus on leadership skills and
rhs.org.uk to find out more. working with the media. To
learn more and apply, go to
nationaltrustjobs.org.uk
WE LOVE
New research from the RHS
and the University of Reading
has found that rounded and
leafy houseplants give us the
2022 garden trends so far
biggest wellbeing boost. The
style of devil’s ivy and similar
Britain is saying goodbye to garden gnomes and
plants was considered to be
artificial grass and hello to natural spaces according
most beautiful by participants.
to a recent study commissioned by Kevin Smith from
The study also discovered that
Draper Tools. More than 10 per cent of the 2,000
unhealthy, neglected plants can
participants say that their garden is ‘intentionally wild’.
have a more negative effect
Artificial topiary balls, plastic decorations and orange
than owning no houseplants at
wood stains are out of date, with water features, bird
all – so keep those leaves in tip-
baths and feeders, fruit trees, greenhouses and living
top condition! The RHS has also
walls taking centre stage. Composting areas are also
recommended its top five low-
on the list of garden features Brits most like to see. This
maintenance houseplants, from
is great news for those trying to live more sustainably.
‘the ZZ plant’ (Zamioculcas
Read the full story on independent.co.uk
zamiifolia) to the mother-in-
law’s tongue (Sansevieria
Our September highlights... trifasciata). Visit rhs.org.uk

to discover more.
TOP CROP
1.5
THIS
MONTH
Onions
We’re all about That’s how
alliums this month.
many crops
Onions are a staple
in the kitchen, so
we rely on to
why not try growing
your own? Take a provide 90
look at RHS expert
LAURA EMILY SOPHIE Esther McMillan’s per cent of our
“Saving seeds is a “As it’s Organic September “I’ll be needing lots of advice for growing energy intake
wonderful thing to be able we’re diving into the most storage inspiration for my onions on page
to do – preserving a little common misconceptions harvests this month, so 24, as well as a as a global
of your garden’s history! of this way of growing I’ll be taking a look at the masterclass on
I’ll be following the RHS over on page 44. Be sure handy tips and ideas on onions among other popu lation
advice on page 30.” to check it out!” page 70!” bulbs on page 74.
SOURCE: ROYAL BOTANIC
GARDENS KEW
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“Tips on being a professional Lupin love
plot nuisance: spreads YOU
to
1. Lay in every “I was so pleased to
possible path read and see Ellen
2. Trample carrots Lockley’s lovely We asked our readers
display of Lupins in the August edition of how they use their beetroot
3. If all else fails, do GYO. Like Ellen, my wife and I planted a side harvests. Here’s what
your business on the bed with a variety of lupins and other tall cottage they said...
radishes and celebrate garden style flowers on our allotment in north
east Scotland. Lupins, however, stole the show
by rolling all over the “Pickling mostly, but some
for colour and resilience. Next to sweet peas,
pumpkins” for salad. Might try some
they are my favourite plant.”
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Show us your garden pics! beetroot and rhubarb
ketchup, and also love
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delicious with a sprinkle
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wander around the garden. on Instagram
No traffic noise, birds singing “It was always going to be
their hearts out, pheasants his, now, wasn’t it? First “My husband bought me “I normally boil the beetroot
strolling by and a big cup of strawberry of the season. this mug to use whilst I’m till it’s soft then chop it up
tea to hand!” He’s been saying for weeks, gardening. I thought that and put it in a salad or make
Andrea Monahan “wait until they are red”.” the message was very apt!” beetroot chocolate cake.”
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