What's new, what's growing, what we're learning. Updates, guides and stories for people who take their garden seriously.
Countless charts list good and bad neighbours, often without reason. Which four mechanisms of mixed cropping are really proven, why the Three Sisters work so well, and the one rule you should never break when combining.
Why the same cabbage grows poorly in its third year and how to prevent it: the two simple rules of crop rotation, the role of legumes as nitrogen gatherers, and the four-field plan that moves each bed one stage on year by year.
Why the heads stay small, why you fold the leaves over the cauliflower, and how broccoli keeps delivering side shoots for weeks after the main head.
The long white shaft makes a good leek. How to plant leeks deep, earth them up right, and protect them from leek moth and onion fly with a net.
Five bean types, five roles in the garden and the kitchen. Which bean goes in when, which one climbs, why they feed the soil and why you must never eat one raw.
Fresh from the bed, sweetcorn is a revelation. Why wind pollination means planting in a block not a row, how to harvest full cobs and what the milk stage tells you.
