Quick guides

Why morning watering suits vegetables best, when evening watering is just as good, how to water in the evening without inviting disease and snails, and what midday watering really costs you.

Which shade cloth percentage suits fruiting crops, which suits leafy greens, why heavy shade-house cloth is too dense for most food crops, and how to rig cloth above the plants.

Sow two or three cucurbit seeds per station, pick the strongest seedling at the first true leaf, and snip the rest at soil level so the keeper has the space to itself.