Allotment Growing
Personal site with a great deal of advice on all aspects of allotment gardening and vegetable growing, as well as a forum and recipes to use for your produce.
BBC Gardening
Advice on all aspects of gardening, including growing crops in pots.
Garden Organic
(previously HDRA)
Garden Organic Coventry
Warwickshire CV8 3LG
Tel: 02476 303517
Offers advice and information about courses on organic gardening.
Green Gardener
Chandlers End
Mill Road
Stokesby
Gt Yarmouth NR29 3EY
Tel: 01493 750061
Specialists in safe, effective biological pest controls, which are harmless to children, pets and wildlife.
Just Green Ltd
Unit 14
Springfield Road Industrial Estate
Burnham-on-Crouch
Essex CM0 8UA
Tel: 01621 785088
Natural pest control and gardening products, as well as other household products.
Let’s Go Gardening
General gardening information.
Rocket Gardens
Treverry Farm
Mawgan
Helston
Cornwall TR12 6BD
Tel: 0845 603 3684/01326 222169
Mail-order online company which organically grows and distributes vegetable and herb seedlings throughout the UK.
Royal Horticultural Society
80 Vincent Square
London SW1P 2PE
Tel: 0845 260 5000
Gardening advice for RHS
members: 0845 260 8000
Provides advice and a gardener’s calendar, as well as information on joining the RHS.
The Herb Society
Sulgrave Manor
Sulgrave
Banbury
Oxfordshire OX17 2SD
Tel: 0845 491 8699/01295 768899
The National Vegetable Society
Various articles on growing vegetables, fruit and herbs, plus information on growing vegetables for shows.
The Organic Gardener
Explains organic gardening, how to use gardening tools effectively, organic weed control, compost gardening and more.
The Soil Association
South Plaza
Marlborough Street
Bristol BS1 3NX
Tel: 0117 314 5000
The UK’s leading environmental charity promoting sustainable, organic farming.
Town and City Gardens
Information and an online shop.
Vegetable Garden
Vegetable growing guides and a forum to ask for advice from other gardeners.
Vegetable Plants Direct
Sparra Park Cottage
Upper Tamar Lake
Bude
Cornwall EX23 9SB
Tel: 01288 321175
www.vegetableplantsdirect.co.uk
Mail-order company with a choice of organically grown (grown from organic seed, but not in peat-free compost) and non-organic plants, and plants suitable for containers, small gardens and allotments.
www.keirg.freeserve.co.uk/diary
Growing vegetables on an allotment – an allotment diary.
Association Kokopelli
‘The Seeds of Kokopelli’ lists 1,000 varieties of organic seeds available to purchase online.
Beans and Herbs
The Herbary
161 Chapel Street
Horningsham
Warminster
Wiltshire BA12 7LU
Chiltern Seeds
Bortree Stile
Ulverston
Cumbria LA12 7PB
Dobies of Devon
Long Road
Paignton
Devon TQ4 7SX
Tel: 0844 701 7623
D.T. Brown
Bury Road
Newmarket CB8 7QB
Tel: 0845 371 0532
Garden Seeds UK
Harrod Horticultural
Pinbush Road
Lowestoft
Suffolk NR33 7NL
Tel: 0845 218 5301
Equipment and organic seeds.
MAS Seed Specialists
4 Pinhills
Wenhill Heights
Calne
Wiltshire SN11 OSA
Tel: 01249 819013
Mr Fothergill’s
Kentford
Suffolk CB8 7QB
Tel: 0845 371 0518
Nicky’s Nursery
33 Fairfield Road
Broadstairs
Kent CT10 2JU
Tel: 01843 600972
Secret Seeds
07817 026676
Suttons
Woodview Road
Paignton
Devon TQ4 7NG
Tel: 0844 922 2899
Tamar Organics
Cartha Martha Farm
Rezare
Launceston
Cornwall PL15 9NX
Tel: 01579 371087
The Organic Gardening Catalogue
Riverdene Business Park
Molesey Road
Hersham
Surrey KT12 4RG
Tel: 01932 256666
The official catalogue of Garden Organic (HDRA).
The Real Seed Catalogue
PO Box 18
Newport near Fishguard
Pembrokeshire SA65 0AA
Tel: 01239 821107
Seeds of Italy
A1 Phoenix Industrial Estate
Rosslyn Crescent
Harrow
Middlesex HA1 2SP
Tel: 0208 427 5020
Suffolk Herbs
Monks Farm
Kelvedon
Colchester
Essex CO5 9PG
Tel: 01376 572456
Thompson & Morgan
Tel: 0844 2485383
Tuckers Seeds
Brewery Meadow
Stonepark
Ashburton
Newton Abbot
Devon TQ13 7DG
Tel: 01364 652233
Unwins
Elm House Nurseries
Alconbury Hill
Huntingdon PE28 4HY
Tel: 01480 443395