Simplify Gardening -- Tony O'Neill's Vegetable Growing Platform
Simplify Gardening

40 years of growing experience. Simplified.

Practical vegetable growing guides, expert advice, and the tools to make every season better than the last. Built by Tony O'Neill -- Watch Manager, SWFRS, author of 19 books, and founder of GrowTrack.

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455,000 YouTube subscribers -- 1.4 million monthly views -- 400+ media citations

40+
Years growing
455K
YouTube subscribers
19
Books published
400+
Media citations
The Simplify Gardening mission

Most gardening advice is written for someone else's garden.

Generic advice averages out across every climate, every soil type, every growing space. It is right for nobody. Every guide on this site is built around practical, tested experience -- what actually works in a real garden, under real conditions, across 40 years of growing.

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What you will find here

Practical guides for serious food growers

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Vegetable Growing Guides

Detailed how-to guides for every major food crop. Sowing, planting, feeding, pest management, and harvest -- built from 40 years of hands-on growing.

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Soil and Composting

Everything that happens above ground starts with what is happening below it. Soil health, composting methods, pH management, and organic fertility building.

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Growing Tips

Practical tips on succession planting, pest control, season extension, and getting more from the space you have. No filler, no fluff.

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The person behind Simplify Gardening

Tony O'Neill

Tony O'Neill is a vegetable growing expert with over 40 years of growing experience, a Watch Manager with South Wales Fire and Rescue Service, the author of 19 books on vegetable growing and soil health, and the founder of GrowTrack Systems Ltd.

He started growing on his grandfather's allotment in Abercynon, South Wales, at seven years old. That grounding in practical, no-nonsense food growing has never left. His mission has always been the same: simplify gardening so more people can enjoy the life-changing power of growing their own food.

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GardenComm Silver Laurel 2025
Simplify Vegetable Gardening -- General Readership Book
Ezoic Publisher of the Year 2021
Recognised for educational impact and content quality
No.1 International Bestseller
Simplify Vegetable Gardening -- Amazon UK and USA
Built by Tony O'Neill

GrowTrack -- Garden Intelligence System

GrowTrack is the garden tool Tony built because generic apps keep giving advice written for someone else's garden. It remembers your beds, tracks your harvests, and includes Rowan -- an AI guide that reads your actual garden records before answering any question.

  • Garden memory -- every bed builds its own record over time
  • Rowan AI by text and voice -- answers based on your garden
  • Bed health scoring and yield tracking across seasons
  • 14-day free trial -- no credit card required
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Rowan -- reading your garden
My courgettes in Bed 3 look pale. What is wrong?
Looking at Bed 3, your soil pH is 6.1 -- slightly low for courgettes. The pale leaves suggest magnesium deficiency. Wet conditions are logged this week with no bee activity nearby, which explains the failed fruit set. Try hand pollinating first thing in the morning and apply a diluted seaweed feed.

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