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20 postsParsley germinates slowly, is biennial and soil-fatiguing. Know these three quirks and you never have empty beds again. How growing succeeds without frustration.
Lamb's lettuce takes over the empty beds from late summer and supplies fresh, nutty greens into spring. The most common mistake is sowing too early and too warm. Here is how the cold germinator sprouts and how you harvest all winter.
Chinese cabbage and pak choi are fast Asian brassicas for the autumn harvest. Sown in summer they bolt, from late July they behave. Here is how to use the long-day trick, protect the young plants from flea beetles and fill an empty bed in a few weeks.
Spinach does not tolerate long summer days: in long days it bolts and turns bitter. So you sow it in two windows, in spring and in late summer to autumn. Here is how both sowings succeed, how the autumn spinach overwinters and how the leaves stay tender.
A pea is not just a pea: the robust round pea, the sweet marrowfat pea and the crisp mangetout each have their own character. Here is how to choose the right type, sow early into the bed and harvest from the bottom up, entirely without nitrogen fertiliser.
Tomatoes, peppers and chillies need a head start only the windowsill gives. Why most seed-raising fails not at germination but at going leggy afterwards, and how bright instead of warm raises sturdy young plants.
Sown direct, child-simple and a feast for bees and birds. Which sunflower suits the bed, the vase or the kitchen, how to support it, and when the seeds are ripe.
Peppery, quick and harvested many times over: how to grow rocket and Asian salad greens cut-and-come-again, why they bolt in summer, and how to keep the flea beetle off.
Maggoty roots and crooked carrots need not happen. Why only the net reliably keeps out the carrot fly, what companion planting really does, and how carrots grow straight.
