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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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Planting rhubarb: give the crown room before you harvest

Choose a lasting position for this perennial, then let the crown establish before picking stems. Leave the first year unharvested, pick lightly in the second and never eat the leaves.

  • Planting
  • Vegetable garden
  • Rhubarb

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Sowing winter squash: pots, space and ripeness

Butternut, red kuri and pumpkins do not all take the same space. Choose between starting in pots and direct sowing, then reserve enough ground for fruits to mature.

  • Squash
  • Vegetable garden
  • Sowing

Turn the reading into a garden.

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