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9 postsDandelion, nettle, wild garlic and six more wild herbs grow right outside your door in spring. Here is how to harvest them young and mild, tell the toxic look-alikes apart, and know where not to gather.
Foraging wild garlic is easy once you know its poisonous look-alikes. Here is how to tell it apart from lily of the valley, autumn crocus and lords-and-ladies, and how to gather it hygienically.
Raised strong and then burnt in the bed? Why the last link of seed-raising is so often forgotten, how to accustom your young plants to sun, wind and cool with a simple ten-day plan, and when they may finally go outside.
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.
Why organic fertiliser takes a quite different path from mineral feed, what the three nutrients N, P and K really do, which organic fertilisers are worth it, and why with the amount less is almost always more.
The Spanish slug eats almost anything and has hardly any enemies. How to tell it from the useful leopard slug, why consistent collecting at dusk is the best measure, which slug pellets spare hedgehogs and pets, and why beer traps do more harm than good.
May is the big moving day: once the Ice Saints have passed, tomatoes, cucumbers and beans can finally head outdoors. We'll show you what to plant, sow and stake now, and how to keep the first slugs in check.
April drives the garden hard: the potatoes go in the ground, direct sowing is in full swing, and the fruit trees are in blossom. Only the late frost still gets a say, and that's what you're getting ready for now.
March is the starting gun: the soil wakes up, the first seeds can go straight into the bed, and in the ornamental garden tulips and daffodils light up. We'll show you what to sow, plant and prune now.
