What's new, what's growing, what we're learning. Updates, guides and stories for people who take their garden seriously.
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.
The mulberry is too soft for the trade and therefore the perfect nibble tree: honey-sweet only fresh from your own tree. White, red and black varieties compared.
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.
Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries: almost any berry thrives in a pot. How to choose substrate and pot size, water lime-free and protect the roots in winter.
An edible hedge is screen, harvest and habitat in one. How to choose the shrubs, stagger them by ripening time and harvest from May to October.
Fungus-resistant PIWI table grapes ripen sweet on a warm south wall even here, entirely without spraying. How to choose variety and site and prune the vine right.
