Vegetable Care Advice

Shoot will also help you to manage your vegetable patch or allotment. If you add your fruit and vegetables to your 'Plants I have' list we will guide you on all your crop care needs. See below a sample of the guides you will be sent at the right time. Artichoke crop care

• Sow lettuce seed for a Summer-Autumn crop
• Plant globe artichoke 'offsets'
• Cut artichoke flower buds before opening

Bean crop care

• Pinch off the bean plant's top
• Dig bean plants into the soil when crop is over
• Sow french bean seeds
• Sow runner beans
• Sow soya beans

Fennel crop care

• Earth up around well developed fennel bulbs
• Sow fennel seeds

Leek crop care

• Sow leek seeds
• Transplant leek seedlings into plot
• Earth up around well developed leek stems

Celeriac crop care

• Earth-up around celeriac bases
• Remove celeriac side-shoots
• Raise celeriac seedlings under glass
• Plant out celeriac seedlings

Mushroom crop care

• Easy indoor method of planting mushroom

Courgette, squash, pumpkin and marrow crop care

• Pinch out tip of trailing varieties of marrow, courgette, pumpkin and squash
• Hand pollinate in cold weather

Chicory crop care

• Sow traditional forcing variety chicory seeds
• Sow modern variety chicory seeds
• Lift and store traditional chicory

Melon crop care

• Pinch out non-flowering tips on melon plants
• Sow melon seeds