Peter Norris

  1. Winter salad

    Winter salad

    If you want to extend the harvest of lettuce and other leafy vegetables as far as possible in the autumn and early winter, it is important to time the sowing so that the plants are almost fully developed when the day length falls below 10 hours....

  2. Winter sowing of carrots

    Winter sowing of carrots

    The most recent of the year I have ever sown carrots was when I once stumbled upon a carrot variety that should be able to be sown in August, germinate during the fall and give fresh crunchy roots the following spring. I therefore immediately...

  3. Savoy cabbage

    Savoy cabbage

    Although of course you have enjoyed the beautiful late summer, the unusual heat of September has also wreaked havoc in the kitchen garden's production plan. Which this bed of savoy cabbage is a glaring example of. The cabbages are sown...

  4. Sowing of lettuce and spinach in hot season

    Sowing of lettuce and spinach in hot season

    It can often be a bit problematic to sow lettuce and spinach in the middle of a heat period like now, as both germinate quite poorly when the soil temperature is above 20 °. You can try to sow in the evening, shade the seedbed, and give it...

  5. Beans

    Beans

    When cultivating a vegetable garden reasonably intensively, each bed should preferably provide at least 2 crops during a season. This is usually done by having small plants ready to plant as soon as the first crop has been harvested. Gradually...

  6. Avoid budworms

    Avoid budworms

    Until 6-7 years ago, I always experienced a certain "dropout" when I planted cabbage and lettuce as a second crop during the summer. The seedlings could get into the ground one day, and already the next morning one could find a single...