The blog
Long, sourced articles about the vegetable garden: what to plant and when, which pairings actually hold up, how to read a sowing calendar.
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Sunlight is the one garden constraint you cannot amend or irrigate your way out of. Here is how to actually measure the light on your plot, and what each level of exposure will genuinely grow.
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Blossom end rot is not a disease, not a fungus, and almost never a shortage of calcium in your soil. It is a water supply problem inside the plant, which changes entirely what you should do about it.
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On two square metres, the question is not "what do I like eating?" but "what earns its space and its months of occupation?". Here is what passes that test, what fails it, and why.
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Crop rotation rests on two specific mechanisms, not on a magic rule. Here is how to think in botanical families, why nightshades deserve your attention first, and how to make trade-offs when your plot is only a couple of hundred square feet.
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October is the month the garden changes gear: the sowing window is closing, the planting window is opening. What still goes in, what needs covering, and what is better left standing.
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Companion planting charts talk about which plants like each other. With courgettes the real questions are bulk, shade and pollination. Here is what holds up and what is only tradition.
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There is no single correct distance between two tomato plants. Here are the three variables that decide it, the spacings most growers work from, and how to adjust them for your own plot.
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Late blight is not a fungus, and that distinction explains everything else. Its biology sets the terms: liquid water on the leaves and a moderate temperature. Everything that actually works consists of denying it those terms.
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"After the last frost" is not a method. Here are the three signals that actually determine planting time, and how to read them where you live.
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Tomato companion planting is a field where tradition and evidence disagree. Here is what holds up, what is shaky, and what actually decides your crop.
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September is not the end of the season. It is the month that decides what your garden looks like in March, provided you sow quickly.
Marmanda turns this advice into a dated, placed plan for your own plot.
