What's new, what's growing, what we're learning. Updates, guides and stories for people who take their garden seriously.
August is the month of full baskets: tomatoes, beans and onions come in by the crateful. Now you preserve what you can't eat straight away and sow the greens that will see you through winter. That's how you stay well fed through the cold months.
June brings the first big harvest: strawberries, peas and kohlrabi fill the basket. At the same time, sowing for autumn carries on, and the first pests need keeping in check. Your plan for early summer.
May is the big moving day: once the Ice Saints have passed, tomatoes, cucumbers and beans can finally head outdoors. We'll show you what to plant, sow and stake now, and how to keep the first slugs in check.
April drives the garden hard: the potatoes go in the ground, direct sowing is in full swing, and the fruit trees are in blossom. Only the late frost still gets a say, and that's what you're getting ready for now.
March is the starting gun: the soil wakes up, the first seeds can go straight into the bed, and in the ornamental garden tulips and daffodils light up. We'll show you what to sow, plant and prune now.
There's still frost in the air, but in February the season quietly gets going: on the windowsill you start your tomatoes and peppers, the early potatoes chit, and on mild days the first tough seeds can even go straight outside.
January looks like a break, but it's the month that decides your season: you harvest winter vegetables, prune the fruit trees on frost-free days, and start the first plants for the new year on your windowsill.
October brings the last big harvest indoors and is, at the same time, the best planting season of the year. You store away root vegetables, set out fruit trees, and use leaves and mulch to get the garden ready for winter.
