Gardener's Almanac: Grow Food

Sowing, planting and watering times worked out for your own ground, not printed from a calendar. You say where your garden is, once, and the timing comes from that place's own climate, anywhere in the world. NOT A ZONE, NOT A FROST DATE Most garden apps time your sowing from a hardiness zone, or from a frost date you have to look up yourself. Here every plant is stored as numbers: the warmth a seed needs to germinate, the days from sowing to a first picking, the cold it will and will not take. Combined with the climate at your garden, the same plant gives the right answer in Palermo and in Luleå. WATERING FROM REAL WEATHER, AND FROM YOUR OWN HANDS Each growing area keeps its own soil moisture estimate, fed by the forecast where your garden is. Pots dry in hours where open ground takes days, and a greenhouse never waters itself. Push a finger into the soil and log what you felt, and the…