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Lease, levies, water and mandatory hours, listed separately in every ad. How the new Garden listings at Gartenkern help you find a garden or hand yours over.
What fits this week in the beds.
In CW 44 to 48 you get your spade, shears and batteries clean, oiled and frost-safe through the winter.
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Autumn olive feeds itself, shrugs off drought and is loaded with lycopene-rich berries in October. Growing, harvesting, using the fruit, and an honest look at its reputation as an invasive species.
An overgrown fruit tree can be saved, but not in a single day. The three-winter plan for old apple, pear, and cherry trees.
The walnut bleeds in spring and is only pruned in late summer, while the sweet chestnut is tough and forgiving. Training, deadwood, and timing for all three nut trees.
Why cherry, apricot, and mirabelle are pruned in summer, which wood they fruit on, and how you avoid gummosis and silver leaf.
The pear grows steep and ages fast, the quince blooms at the tips of new shoots. Here's how to read their fruiting wood and prune both right.
Apple in February, cherry after harvest, walnut in late summer: why every fruit tree has its own pruning time, and which wood it bears on.
Which climbers actually close a balcony, how large the pot must be, and why hardiness in a container is a different thing from hardiness in a bed.
A rental garden is a vegetable plot that is already planted in May and handed back in October. What it costs in time, what comes out of it, and who it is worth it for.
In summer there are no ten metres of kitchen corridor between the bed and the pan. What you need for that, what is allowed in your own garden, on a balcony and in an allotment, and why portable is more often the wiser choice.
