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Marmanda's notebook.

Long, sourced articles about the vegetable garden: what to plant and when, which pairings actually hold up, how to read a sowing calendar.

8 September 20266 min read

How to Rotate Crops in a Vegetable Garden (and Why It Is Harder Than You Are Told)

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.

Diseases
Rotation
Soil

8 September 20267 min read

Tomato blight: how to prevent it, and why you cannot cure it

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.

Diseases
Rotation
Tomato

Turn the reading into a garden.

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

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