From the first radish to the autumn harvest: growing, care and variety know-how for your vegetable beds.
54 postsWhen is a pumpkin truly ripe, how do you harvest without risking rot, and how do you keep the crop all winter? The fingernail test, the stem, and proper storage step by step.
A tough root, a flavourful variety: grafting turns two tomatoes into one. How splice grafting works at the kitchen table, and who it actually pays off for.
Broad beans are the frost-hardy early birds of the bed. Sow from CW 8 and you harvest early and outgrow the black bean aphid. Here is how sowing, care and harvest work.
One and the same Mediterranean thistle, two vegetables: with the artichoke you harvest the bud, with the cardoon the blanched leaf stalk. Here is how to nail the sowing, harvest and winter protection in the DACH garden.
Jerusalem artichoke grows as if by itself and needs taming rather than tending, while yacon surprises with juicy, sweet tubers from the Andes. Here is how to plant, harvest and store these two low-maintenance potato alternatives.
Why Florence fennel so often shoots up instead of forming fat bulbs, and how you prevent it with summer sowing, bolt-resistant varieties and even watering.
Two hardy roots almost no one grows anymore: sow parsnip and black salsify in spring, harvest them all winter, and frost even makes them sweeter. Here is how to grow them well.
Horseradish is as generous as it is stubborn: one root cutting feeds you for years. How to plant it, tame it with a root barrier, and harvest it after the frost.
Firm storage varieties last until spring if you harvest and store them right. When white and red cabbage go into storage, why savoy stays in the bed, why pointed cabbage has no business in the cellar, and how the surplus becomes sauerkraut.
