Every post we tagged with #blattgemuese. Newest first.
5 postsSow once, cut all summer long: chard delivers leaf after leaf into spring. Here is how to harvest it right, leave the heart standing, and even use the colourful stems as decoration.
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.
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.
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.
Twenty heads at once and then nothing? How small batches and loose-leaf lettuce give you an even harvest from spring into autumn, and why lettuce will not germinate in high summer.
