News

The unbreakable working laws of gardening, from soil prep and watering to mulching, editing and showing up. The dirt cult's twelve commandments.

Cut garlic scapes for bigger bulbs at harvest and a bonus crop of one of the season's best green vegetables. When, how, and what to cook with them.

Change your hydrangea blooms from blue to pink (or back) by adjusting soil pH. The actual chemistry, the method, the catches no one tells you.

Loads of flowers but no fruit on your pumpkin or zucchini? Become the bee. How to identify male and female flowers and hand-pollinate, in three steps.

Tomatoes splitting on the vine? The watering pattern that causes it, the fix for next harvest, and what to do with cracked fruit you've already grown.

Catfacing in tomatoes explained: why your fruit grows scarred and lobed, what causes it at the flower stage, and how to grow smoother fruit next year.

Forked, hairy, stunted, hairy, bolting, fly-damaged, green-shouldered or just plain bitter? The 9 most common carrot problems, explained, with the fix for each.

The soil prep, sowing trick, thinning method and carrot fly defence that turns a packet of carrot seed into a bed of sweet, straight, perfectly shaped roots.

A shaded garden isn't a dead garden. The vegetables, herbs, and roots that prefer (or at least tolerate) low light, and how to get the most from a shady bed.