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Pernille Roos · Jul 22, 2026A grey fortnight in the middle of summer feels like a disaster and mostly is not one. Almost everything you are looking at is paused rather than dying. But three things are genuinely rotting, one creature is having the week of its life, and the single most damaging thing you can do is the thing that feels most productive.
Pernille Roos · Jul 21, 2026A must in my kitchen garden is Garlic. We use garlic in nearly all food, from pasta sauce and salad dressing to steak dinner and dip for chips. And it is super easy to grow!
Pernille Roos · Jul 20, 2026Most garden problems give you a season to think about them. Late blight gives you about ten days. It arrives on the wind in the muggy end of July, and the difference between losing a crop and saving most of it is usually whether you recognised it on the first morning or the fourth.
Pernille Roos · Jul 17, 2026Beans are the crop most likely to be called easy and most likely to be grown wrong. Almost every decision — where they go, what you feed them, when you pick — follows from two questions you answer before you sow: how tall does this one get, and are you eating the pod or the seed?
Pernille Roos · Jul 14, 2026Chilies don’t need pruning to crop — but three simple cuts, made for the right reason at the right time, can mean a bushier plant, more fruit, and cleaner ripening. Here’s when to reach for the scissors, and when to sit on your hands.
Pernille Roos · Jul 14, 2026Tomatoes are the crop most gardeners fall for first — and the one that most rewards getting the timing right. This is the whole arc: sowing, planting out, the one pruning decision that actually matters, keeping them fed and even, and coaxing the last fruit to colour before the cold.
Pernille Roos · Jul 14, 2026The most common way a first garden fails is being too big. Here is how to plant less, grow more, and actually enjoy your first season.
Pernille Roos · Jul 9, 2026Most companion-planting charts are copied folklore. We ran the pairings through our model and checked the science behind them — here's what holds up, what doesn't, and what the data found that tradition missed.
Pernille Roos · Jul 8, 2026Missed the spring sowing window? You haven't missed the season. Here are the fast crops you can still grow — and how to stretch the weeks you have left.
Pernille Roos · Jun 30, 2026If you want to use your roses for jams, teas, and baking, you need a variety with two things: a powerful fragrance (no scent = no flavor!) and large petals (unless you love doing tedious, tiny yard work).
Pernille Roos · Jun 30, 2026What better way to capture this fleeting magic than by preserving it in a jar? Combining the bright sweetness of fresh strawberries with the intoxicating floral notes of garden roses creates a luxurious, summery jam perfect for brightening up a rainy day or lifting your spirits during the long winter months.
Pernille Roos · Jun 17, 2026Finding the right plant neighbours used to take years of trial and error. Kindred Core changes that — here's how it works.
Pernille Roos · Jun 10, 2026So, I might have forgotten to make an actual post about what this website is, why I made it, and so on… Oops!
Pernille Roos · Jun 9, 2026They are beautiful in their growth habit with their green foliage winding up toward the sky with a color that makes you happy and then come the bean pods! Hanging there with different shapes and colors, they give the green foliage that little bit extra! And finally! The harvest of the beautiful beans! It is just as exciting every time to open a dried bean pod. How did the color turn out? How many are there?
Pernille Roos · Mar 22, 2026The March sowing is normally split into 2 rounds, but this year March went by so fast that I completely missed that we were already at the end of the month!
