What's new, what's growing, what we're learning. Updates, guides and stories for people who take their garden seriously.
The pit gives you a beautiful plant, but rarely a harvest. How to grow an avocado in a pot, overwinter it bright and cool, and why waterlogging is the most common killer.
Apricot, peach and almond bloom in March, when night frosts are still normal. Here is how to protect the blossom with the right spot, fleece and overhead irrigation, without the panic.
A tough root, a flavourful variety: grafting turns two tomatoes into one. How splice grafting works at the kitchen table, and who it actually pays off for.
Broad beans are the frost-hardy early birds of the bed. Sow from CW 8 and you harvest early and outgrow the black bean aphid. Here is how sowing, care and harvest work.
Your clematis grows but won't flower? Almost always the pruning shears are to blame. Here's how to sort your clematis into its pruning group and cut each one right.
Sage is an undemanding Mediterranean subshrub. With the right spot and a firm spring cut, one plant carries you through the kitchen for many years.
One and the same Mediterranean thistle, two vegetables: with the artichoke you harvest the bud, with the cardoon the blanched leaf stalk. Here is how to nail the sowing, harvest and winter protection in the DACH garden.
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.
Why Florence fennel so often shoots up instead of forming fat bulbs, and how you prevent it with summer sowing, bolt-resistant varieties and even watering.
