Every post we tagged with #anzucht. Newest first.
10 postsCeleriac and stalk celery are the same species with two goals. Here is how to start both indoors in February, plant them nice and shallow, and carry them through summer to the autumn harvest.
The tomatillo is not the sweet physalis but a tart green vegetable made for salsa verde. Here is how to start it, why you need two plants, and when the husk is ripe.
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.
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.
Start marigold, zinnia and cosmos on the windowsill from March so your summer flowers bloom earlier. Bright and not too warm, out only after the Ice Saints.
The aubergine is the most heat-loving of the fruiting vegetables and succeeds here best in a pot or greenhouse. Here is how to raise it from February, harvest it at the right moment and find the right one between dark purple, striped and mini varieties.
Peppers and chillies are almost the same plant, the difference is the heat. Both need lots of warmth and a very early start. Here is how the raising succeeds from February, and how to find the right variety between the mild sweet pepper and the fiery habanero.
Raised strong and then burnt in the bed? Why the last link of seed-raising is so often forgotten, how to accustom your young plants to sun, wind and cool with a simple ten-day plan, and when they may finally go outside.
Tomatoes, peppers and chillies need a head start only the windowsill gives. Why most seed-raising fails not at germination but at going leggy afterwards, and how bright instead of warm raises sturdy young plants.
