GrowSimply. Garden The Vegetable Guide

The Vegetable Guide

Your ad-free gardening reference — plant portraits, garden knowledge and valuable tips, written by Thomas and Sellerina.

The Vegetable Guide is GrowSimply's reference for the vegetable garden. Here you'll find plant profiles covering sowing, care and harvest, basics such as crop rotation and compost, and short tips for the current season, free of charge, without ads and without signing up. If you don't want to keep everything in your head, GrowSimply plans crop rotation, companion planting and sowing dates for your garden.

Plants

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Successfully grow skirret
Plants

Successfully grow skirret

How you can successfully cultivate the skirret in your garden. This article shows you everything you need to know for a bountiful harvest.

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Successfully grow and harvest red cabbage
Plants

Successfully grow and harvest red cabbage

How do you achieve the perfect red cabbage in your garden? Learn everything about the right care and how you can safely save your harvest until winter.

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Garden Know-How

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A pile of dark, moist compost with visible layers of decaying plant remains and kitchen waste.
Garden Know-How

composting correctly

Learn how to properly build and maintain a compost pile. From layering to the finished result, you will receive all the necessary information.

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A vegetable bed with dark soil shows different cultivation phases in the soft morning light.
Garden Know-How

crop rotation in the vegetable bed

Protect your harvest from pests like cabbage flies and keep the soil healthy through systematic crop rotation of your plants.

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Garden Tips

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Close-up of a robust kale plant in the garden with large, dark green, curly leaves.
Garden Tips

Harvest mild kale without frost

Are you still waiting for the frost or are you already harvesting? Find out how to get a wonderful aroma in your leaves through the right amount of cold.

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Several ripe red and orange bell peppers hang on a green bush in the garden.
Garden Tips

Save sweet pepper before the frost

When the nights get cooler, your sweet pepper will no longer ripen on the vine. Harvest large fruits in time and let them ripen in a warm place.

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