Fruit and vegetables
3 guides in 2 sections
Planning a small fruit and vegetable garden, keeping the harvest coming, and storing what you pick. The guides suit a few pots or a single bed as well as an allotment.
Planning and sowing
Dwarf or standard, and does it need a partnerFruit tree size is chosen by rootstock, not variety, and a self-fertile label answers a completely different question from whether it needs a partner tree at all.
Succession sowing for a continuous harvestSowing little and often, timed by days-to-maturity and frost dates, instead of one large sowing that ripens all at once and is gone within a fortnight.
Picking and storing
Picking and storing the harvestCuring potatoes properly, storing root vegetables through winter, and what to actually do with more tomatoes than one household can eat fresh.