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10 postsA rental garden is a vegetable plot that is already planted in May and handed back in October. What it costs in time, what comes out of it, and who it is worth it for.
Fifteen kilos of carrots and one salad drawer in the fridge: how to build an earth clamp, what belongs in the sand box, and why the old natural cellar keeps root vegetables plump until March.
Jerusalem artichoke grows as if by itself and needs taming rather than tending, while yacon surprises with juicy, sweet tubers from the Andes. Here is how to plant, harvest and store these two low-maintenance potato alternatives.
Sow 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.
A layer of mulch saves water, slows weeds and builds humus. But mulch is not just mulch: why fresh grass clippings rot, why bark does not belong on the vegetable bed, and how the right material in the right place protects your soil.
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.
Garden and kitchen waste become the best fertiliser you can get for free. Why the whole secret lies in the ratio of green and brown material, how to avoid rot, and what must never go on the compost.
Why the same cabbage grows poorly in its third year and how to prevent it: the two simple rules of crop rotation, the role of legumes as nitrogen gatherers, and the four-field plan that moves each bed one stage on year by year.
A garden is not a battlefield. How a clear ladder of prevent, strengthen, encourage beneficials and deter mechanically keeps most problems from ever growing large, and why the chemical hammer is the very last step.
