What's new, what's growing, what we're learning. Updates, guides and stories for people who take their garden seriously.
The hardy kiwi is a grape-sized mini kiwi with edible skin and very hardy. How to choose variety and pollinator and give it the right support.
The lingonberry is an evergreen groundcover with red, spicy berries and bears twice a year. How to give it the acidic soil the blueberry loves too.
Blueberry, lingonberry and cranberry need acidic soil. How to lower the pH, water lime-free and recognise iron chlorosis in time.
The elder gives two harvests: fragrant flowers in early summer and black berries in autumn. Why both are edible only heated and how to process them.
Birds love ripe berries. How to protect the harvest with fine-meshed, taut nets without an animal trap, with fair alternatives and the right timing.
Perpetual and wild strawberries are small aroma bombs and cheap to grow from seed. How the sowing of the cold and light germinators and their use in the garden succeed.
Tayberry and loganberry combine the robustness of the blackberry and the aroma of the raspberry. How to plant, support and prune the two Rubus hybrids.
Mediterranean container plants are not hardy. How to sort by frost hardiness, overwinter cool and bright instead of warm and dark and protect the root ball.
From an organic rhizome from the supermarket you grow ginger and turmeric yourself in a pot. How to sprout them, care for the tropical relatives and harvest in autumn.
