Planning

You’ll need to feed your plants for good crops. It can seem confusing — NPK ratios, trace elements, organic versus chemical — but for allotment…

Many plotholders advise not planting the same annual crop in the same place each year — for plant health and productivity, give it a new…

A little botany helps. Vegetables fall into botanical families that tend to share characteristics — the part you eat, cropping season, growing needs or appearance:…

Note how your plot sits relative to the sun. Most plots run north–south along their long dimension, so rows planted across the short dimension will…