What's new, what's growing, what we're learning. Updates, guides and stories for people who take their garden seriously.
The sweet potato is botanically a bindweed, not a potato. How to raise your own cuttings, plant them warm, and why only curing makes them properly sweet.
Maggoty roots and crooked carrots need not happen. Why only the net reliably keeps out the carrot fly, what companion planting really does, and how carrots grow straight.
Why several plants come up from one seed, why you should eat the leaves, and how to store beetroot in damp sand until spring.
