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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.
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.
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.
Dandelion, nettle, wild garlic and six more wild herbs grow right outside your door in spring. Here is how to harvest them young and mild, tell the toxic look-alikes apart, and know where not to gather.
Scatter crocus, snowdrops and daffodils into the lawn once, and they come back every spring and multiply. Here is how to build a natural flower carpet, from autumn planting to the one iron mowing rule.
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.
When the summer flowers fade in September, the asters open and become the last big nectar source for bees. Here is how to plant, combine and care for them.
