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22 postsCarrot and onion, tomato and basil, the Three Sisters: what generations observed in the bed, how much of it is actually documented, and which neighbours you really do need to keep apart.
Kohlrabi is ready to harvest in eight to ten weeks. Sow in batches from CW 12 to 30, plant shallow and water evenly, and you will pick tender bulbs all summer long.
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.
Cabbage has two main enemies: the cabbage white, whose caterpillars strip the leaves bare, and the unseen cabbage root fly, whose maggots destroy the roots. Here is how to keep both off without poison, with net, collar and a look under the leaves.
When the summer lettuce is done, the time of the bitter salads begins. Endive, sugarloaf, radicchio and Belgian chicory are sown in summer and harvested from autumn to winter. Here is how to tame the bitterness, blanch endive and force chicory in the cellar.
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.
Brussels sprouts stand in the bed for almost half a year before the first sprouts are ripe. Two things decide firm versus loose sprouts: a firm soil and topping the growing tip in autumn. Here is how the patience crop succeeds into winter.
Kale is the most honest winter-vegetable classic: winter-hardy, healthy and fresh when other beds are empty. What really happens with the cold stimulus, why a hard frost is not necessary at all, and how to crop it from the bottom up from planting to winter harvest.
