Every post we tagged with #gemuesegarten. Newest first.
44 postsTomato, pepper, courgette and squash are the hungriest residents of the bed. How to feed them potassium instead of nitrogen and read leaf colour as your gauge.
You plant an asparagus bed not for this season but for the next decade. From site choice to green versus white to the Midsummer stop: how to build a bed that yields for 15 years.
Pole beans use the airspace nobody else plants into. How to build a sturdy bean tepee, why beans always climb anticlockwise, and how steady picking keeps the harvest going for weeks.
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.
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.
