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20 postsRoot days, leaf days, waxing moon and ascending moon: what the moon-planting calendars actually say, what controlled sowing trials have found, and why the rules persist anyway.
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.
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.
A bed grown just for cutting keeps the vase full all summer. Which flowers succeed, when to sow and how to harvest so it keeps on blooming.
You sow foxglove, mullein and honesty in high summer, but they only flower the year after. Here is how to sow biennials successfully, and how to let them self-seed.
Some summer flowers resent every move and bloom even more freely when sown in place. Which species suit direct sowing, when the window is open, and how the bed refills itself year after year.
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.
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.
Perpetual and wild strawberries are small aroma bombs and cheap to grow from seed. How the sowing of the cold and light germinators and their use in the garden succeed.
