Plan & Track Your Crops For Free
Plan your allotment, place your crops and track what you’ve planted. It’s simple, completely free and requires no sign-up.
The Allotment Grow Hub
Everyone needs a helping hand at the allotment once in a while. I built this guide from my own experience growing food in the UK, to help others do the same. Lower your bills, gain confidence and reduce dependence on the system.
If your new to growing and feel a bit lost, start with what to plant this month or our Allotment Planning Guides here.
Allotment Planning
Start here if you’re trying to work out what goes where, when to sow, how to rotate crops, or how to make better use of a small allotment. These guides help you plan the plot before the growing season gets away from you.
Free Allotment Tools & Planners
Use these free tools to plan your plot, work out what to sow and when, follow planting dates and identify the wildlife visiting your allotment.
What To Grow This Season
Not sure what to sow, plant, or harvest right now? Start with the guide that matches the season you’re in. Each guide covers the key UK growing months, with simple jobs for gardens and allotments.
Planting & Sowing Guides
Start here if you want to know what to sow, when to plant, and how to get crops off to a good start in UK gardens and allotments.
Hands On Growing Guides
Once your crops are in, these guides help you keep them healthy, productive and growing well through the season.
Help With Pests & Disease
Everyone has problems here and there, I’ve written these guides to help you along the way.
Harvesting Guides
Learn when crops are ready to pick and how to harvest them properly, so you get the best flavour, size and keeping quality from what you grow.
Storage & Preservation Guides
Make more of your harvest with simple ways to store, cure, dry, freeze or preserve home-grown produce so it lasts longer.
Gardening Tool Reviews
I’m a gardener by trade and have my own allotment plot, these are tools reviewed on my experience.
My Allotment Diary
Short diary posts keeping up with the evolution of my allotment plot here on the Wirral (NW UK).
Guides Written From The Ground Up
In an age of AI slop and charlatans, these guides offer hands-on experience from me (Fred the Gardener). The emphasis is always on:
- Clear Methods
- Seasonal advice for the UK
- Practical & real results
- Learning from my mistakes