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What Britain (and America) sowed in 2026

166 gardeners, 10,983 sowings, 4 scans and 4,594 journal entries, from the GrowMore CookMore app. Updated 4 September 2026.

Every sowing, harvest, packet scan and journal entry in GrowMore CookMore is logged by a real gardener on a real plot. Put them together and you get something nobody else in gardening has: what people actually sowed this year, when, and which varieties they'd bother with again. Not what the catalogues say. What happened.

These are counts, never names. A crop only shows once three or more gardeners have sown it. The page rebuilds itself every hour, so if you're reading this in September, that's how far the year's got. Quote it, link it, argue with it in the club.

United Kingdom

163gardeners logged a sowing
10,907sowings logged
4,552journal entries
4packets and labels scanned

Sowings by month

Every sowing logged, by the month it went in.

Most-scanned at the garden centre

What the Scan Centre was pointed at most.

Near You is switched on in 1 postcode areas.

North America

3gardeners logged a sowing
76sowings logged
42journal entries
0packets and labels scanned

Most-sown crops

Distinct gardeners who logged at least one sowing of it.

Sowings by month

Every sowing logged, by the month it went in.

How the numbers are made

A gardener counts once per crop however many times they sowed it. Sowings by month use the date the gardener gave the sowing, not the day they typed it in. Grow-again votes are one per gardener per variety, from the button in the Seed Tin. Region comes from the gardener's own setting in the app. Scan counts include packets, plant labels and plug trays. Nothing here can be traced to a person, and we don't show a crop until three or more people are behind it.

Want this for a story or a talk? Use it, credit GrowMore CookMore and link to this page. If you want a cut we haven't shown, ask.

Plan the plot, track every sowing, cook the harvest

Sowing reminders and harvest forecasts for your own frost dates, the Seed Tin, Scan Centre for any label or packet, and the Potty Mouth Garden Club. Free to start.

Tony C Smith
Tony C Smith

Allotment keeper in the North East of England, the voice behind the Tony C Smith YouTube channel, and the gardener who built GrowMore CookMore. Club numbers on this page update as members log their plots. Last updated 4 September 2026.