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What if your phone knew exactly when to plant, what thrives in your soil, and connected you with gardeners in walking distance for seed swaps and real meetups?

Garlic spends most of a year in the ground, so this week it sits at opposite ends of its season depending on where you a...
04/11/2026

Garlic spends most of a year in the ground, so this week it sits at opposite ends of its season depending on where you are.

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In the northern hemisphere, cloves are going into cold soil. In the southern hemisphere, the leaves are starting to turn and the bulbs are filling out.

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Where’s your garlic at? Going in, or nearly ready to lift? Tell us in the comments, and tell us where you grow. And if you’ve had troubles in the past or unexpected success why not share that too! After all, the greatest learning in gardening happens when we try, we learn, we share - no matter the outcome, there’s value in it all,

Purple and orange sweet potatoes, lifted for the season in an urban garden in St Louis. That’s one of TheSimpleLife (on ...
01/11/2026

Purple and orange sweet potatoes, lifted for the season in an urban garden in St Louis. That’s one of TheSimpleLife (on the app) most recent harvests. TheSimpleLife is an urban gardener in Zone 6b who calls themselves a “pretty vegetable connoisseur”, we can relate.
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The green beans are already blanched and in the freezer for winter, and the trees around the garden are turning.
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Today is World Cities Day. Southern growers, it’s sweet potato slip season for you. Northern growers, what’s going into your freezer this autumn?

Seed heads are drying on the bench in the north. Last season’s jars are being opened in the south. 🌿Saving seed is one o...
31/10/2026

Seed heads are drying on the bench in the north. Last season’s jars are being opened in the south.

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Saving seed is one of the quiet jobs that carries a garden from one year to the next, and it goes further when it’s shared.

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In the Gardenstead app, local Seed Swap groups are where members share their spare seed and ask if anyone nearby has what they’re after. You’ll find them under Community, then Groups. The link is in our bio.

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What are you saving this year, or sowing from what you saved? Tell us in the comments, and tell us where you grow.

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Somewhere a gardener is racing the dark to get the last bulbs in. Somewhere else, someone is watering seedlings after di...
30/10/2026

Somewhere a gardener is racing the dark to get the last bulbs in. Somewhere else, someone is watering seedlings after dinner with light to spare.

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The clocks went back in the UK and Europe on Sunday. In the south, the evenings are stretching out.

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When do you get out into the garden now? Before work or after? Tell us in the comments, and tell us where you’re growing.

The first carrots bolted in the heat. The second sowing came good.🌿That is one of this season’s lessons at Vantage Farm,...
23/10/2026

The first carrots bolted in the heat. The second sowing came good.
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That is one of this season’s lessons at Vantage Farm, Gareth’s family allotment in Edinburgh, Zone 8b. It is a small plot, set up so the whole family can learn to grow food together, and this year it has given them beetroot, pumpkins, tomatoes, melons and sunflowers.
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The Edinburgh season is slowing now, and the next one has already arrived by post. Gareth has just taken delivery of Caulk Wight garlic to try for next season.
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Southern growers, you are sowing now what Gareth has been harvesting. Northern growers, is garlic going in at your place this autumn?

Our Curious Gardeners giveaway has a winner!🌿Congratulations to AshFromEarth (on Gardenstead) in Zone8b,UK, whose tomato...
23/10/2026

Our Curious Gardeners giveaway has a winner!
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Congratulations to AshFromEarth (on Gardenstead) in Zone8b,UK, whose tomato experiment has won the bundle of four books by Jamie Walton | Nettles & Petals Patrick Vernuccio NATASHA MORGAN . They will be on their way as soon.

Ash’s tomato experiment involved trailling his tomatoes for the season in three different settings to see which would be the most successful. His results were mixed. His greenhouse tomatoes flourished but so did the ones in the ground outside that were planted late and did not fed. In Ash’s words these one’s ‘went wild’. In mid September it was still producing new flowers! All of this while suffering through three heat waves, with no rain for 2.5 months. Thanks Ash for the such a detailed post. We look forward to seeing how you go next growing season now you are armed with the results of this experiement. 
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Thank you to everyone who entered. We read every one. The Curious Gardeners group in the Gardenstead app stays open for anyone testing something new. The link is in our bio.

And there’s plenty more giveaways to come! Stay tuned! We’re so glad you’re here. 🌱💚💚💚

Amethyst eggplants, lemon cucumbers, radishes, cherry tomatoes. That’s what Gardenstead member ‘Belgiangarden’ has been ...
09/10/2026

Amethyst eggplants, lemon cucumbers, radishes, cherry tomatoes. That’s what Gardenstead member ‘Belgiangarden’ has been growing from seed this year, in Zone 8a, Belgium.

After fifteen years and a handful of continents and climates, they are back on home soil and experimenting with what can grow from seed in their short growing season.

This summer ran hotter than expected, heatwaves included. Short growing season, new climate to relearn, and a full trial list anyway. That’s what a first proper season looks like. Follow along. (Link in bio)

🌿 Some of the hardest workers in your garden have never read a seed packet.In the southern spring, frogs are calling fro...
07/10/2026

🌿 Some of the hardest workers in your garden have never read a seed packet.

In the southern spring, frogs are calling from ponds and bees are back in the blossom. In the northern autumn, birds are working the seed heads and anything small and spiny is looking for a leaf pile to sleep in.

Who lives in your garden? Tell us in the comments, and if you’ve caught them on camera, even better.

Why not share a window into your garden world in our free app too. We have an entire community of your garden friends there.

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Gardenstead member Gayla Trail-Risk started gardening at five years old, weeding her family’s postage-stamp yard in the ...
11/09/2026

Gardenstead member Gayla Trail-Risk started gardening at five years old, weeding her family’s postage-stamp yard in the UK. Paula is now fifty years in, with a home patch, a greenhouse, and a local allotment, and the past seventeen years have been spent gardening for a living.

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She had written off onions after downy mildew took last year’s crop. Then she tried the Santeros variety and they have been a huge success. Elsewhere on the plot: biquinho chillies, tomatoes, courgettes, beans, blackberries by the handful. In the flower beds it is Gaillardia ‘Mesa Yellow’, helenium, Cosmos sulphureus, Rudbeckia hirta ‘Green Eyes’, a David Austin ‘Golden Celebration’ rose, and sweet peas. The bees have found all of it.

She gardens in Zone 8b, and still loves learning what one piece of ground will do.

You can meet more Gardenstead members through the link in our bio.

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The meteorological calendar has turned. Spring begins in the southern hemisphere, autumn in the northern.In Melbourne th...
04/09/2026

The meteorological calendar has turned. Spring begins in the southern hemisphere, autumn in the northern.

In Melbourne the wattle blooms are just starting along with the first flush of alliums. In Amsterdam it is apple harvest time and the beginning of autumn foliage beginning to turn before falling. In Auckland peas are going in the ground. In Brooklyn tomatoes are ripening faster than anyone can eat them.

What is beginning or ending in your patch today?

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