What's new, what's growing, what we're learning. Updates, guides and stories for people who take their garden seriously.
Horseradish is as generous as it is stubborn: one root cutting feeds you for years. How to plant it, tame it with a root barrier, and harvest it after the frost.
Wisteria only flowers lavishly with two cuts a year. Here is how to shorten the whip shoots in high summer and free the flowering wood in late winter.
Firm storage varieties last until spring if you harvest and store them right. When white and red cabbage go into storage, why savoy stays in the bed, why pointed cabbage has no business in the cellar, and how the surplus becomes sauerkraut.
Frost-killed or winter-hardy? How to cover empty beds with green manure in late summer, which type fits when, and how to work it in properly come spring.
Not woody, not fiercely hot: how to grow mild, crisp radishes and daikon. Sow in succession, keep the soil evenly moist and lock flea beetles out with fleece.
Wet snow, frost cracks and hungry hares put trees and shrubs to the test in winter. Here is how to protect your woody plants from CW 48 to CW 8 with a few simple moves.
A bed grown just for cutting keeps the vase full all summer. Which flowers succeed, when to sow and how to harvest so it keeps on blooming.
You sow foxglove, mullein and honesty in high summer, but they only flower the year after. Here is how to sow biennials successfully, and how to let them self-seed.
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.
