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Mid-July: time for summer vegetables

News on summer vegetables, pruning suckers, pests and friendly insects, and an open day in the Planty Garden.

July: summer in the vegetable garden

All about the perfect vegetable garden with perfect plants, tasks for July, and yellow leaves and what that means.

Bring on the summer garden

Just a few more days until it's officially summer: the vegetables are growing fast. About watering, snails and slugs, and what to do when you go on vacation.

Choosing vegetable seeds

How to select seeds. Do you want to sow unique varieties or are you going for a huge harvest? Which vegetables will produce a lot, and which won't?

Making a mini vegetable garden with pots

You can grow vegetables anywhere: on your balcony, roof terrace, or even on your houseboat. A small-scale Planty Garden is easy with growbags.

A tour of the vegetable garden in September

The current status of the Planty Garden: how's it going, what's going well - what's not - and what do I sow in my empty garden boxes?