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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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Sowing courgettes: pots indoors or direct sowing?

Check light, space and the local frost outlook before starting courgettes indoors. Choose between pots and direct sowing, then prepare a gradual move outdoors without treating UK dates as universal.

  • Courgette
  • Planting
  • Sowing

6 min read

Companion plants for courgettes, and why space matters more

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.

  • Companion planting
  • Pairings
  • Courgette

Turn the reading into a garden.

Marmanda turns this advice into a dated, placed plan for your own plot.