From the first radish to the autumn harvest: growing, care and variety know-how for your vegetable beds.
54 postsNot woody, not fiercely hot: how to grow mild, crisp radishes and daikon. Sow in succession, keep the soil evenly moist and lock flea beetles out with fleece.
Kohlrabi is ready to harvest in eight to ten weeks. Sow in batches from CW 12 to 30, plant shallow and water evenly, and you will pick tender bulbs all summer long.
Sow once, cut all summer long: chard delivers leaf after leaf into spring. Here is how to harvest it right, leave the heart standing, and even use the colourful stems as decoration.
Rhubarb is a perennial for life. Here is how to plant it right, harvest from April to Midsummer by pulling rather than cutting, and rejuvenate an old crown by dividing it.
You plant an asparagus bed not for this season but for the next decade. From site choice to green versus white to the Midsummer stop: how to build a bed that yields for 15 years.
Pole beans use the airspace nobody else plants into. How to build a sturdy bean tepee, why beans always climb anticlockwise, and how steady picking keeps the harvest going for weeks.
Muskmelon or watermelon in your own garden: from a warm start indoors through pollination and care to the knock test that tells you when to harvest.
Lamb's lettuce takes over the empty beds from late summer and supplies fresh, nutty greens into spring. The most common mistake is sowing too early and too warm. Here is how the cold germinator sprouts and how you harvest all winter.
Cabbage has two main enemies: the cabbage white, whose caterpillars strip the leaves bare, and the unseen cabbage root fly, whose maggots destroy the roots. Here is how to keep both off without poison, with net, collar and a look under the leaves.
