Indeterminate tomatoes and climbing beans need tall support - 1.8m is ideal to get the full potential out of the crop, and it needs to be robust enough to hold crops steady under the weight of a crop and the wind as well. Steel reinforcing mesh is the bees knees.

Once upon a time, garlic was planted on the shortest day and harvested on the longest - how I loved that tradition, but life is change. Nowadays, planting earlier is a smart move if you get rust over your garlic foliage mid to late spring. The rust reduces photosynthesis, which in