Watering a Warm Dry Climate Vegetable Garden
You water your vegetables every day. Sometimes twice a day when it is hot. And yet the plants look tired, grow slowly, or produce less than you expected. More water …
Starting a Vegetable Garden
Step-by-step guides for complete beginners — how to choose the right spot, prepare your first garden bed, understand your soil and know exactly when to sow and plant. No experience needed.
Watering Your Vegetable Garden in a Warm Dry Climate
For anyone starting a vegetable garden in a warm dry climate — like the Serra de Monchique where we live — watering is where most beginners go wrong. Not because …
Easy Vegetables to Grow for Beginners in a Mediterranean Climate
One of the most common questions we hear from people starting their first vegetable garden is this: what should I actually grow? There are hundreds of vegetables to choose from …
How to Prepare Your First Vegetable Garden Bed
There is one moment that every vegetable gardener remembers. It’s not the first harvest. It’s not even the first seedling breaking through the soil. It’s the moment you look at …
Start your vegetable garden in only three weeks time.
Three weeks is enough time to go from bare ground to a planted vegetable garden. It does not require experience, a large budget or special equipment. What it does require …
Where to start your vegetable garden, some things to consider.
Deciding where to start your vegetable garden is the first and most important step. Picking the right spot takes a little time upfront, but it saves a great deal of …
Sweet Basil, all you need to know to grow it.
Sweet basil is one of the easiest and most rewarding herbs to grow. It is fast, productive and useful in the kitchen from the moment you harvest the first leaves. …
Growing Asparagus
When wanting to grow a vegetable cash crop why not choose a sexy one? Figs are supposedly the most erotic fruit, but its vegetable compeer is without doubt the asparagus. …