The people behind FernGrowing Notes
Every guide here is written, tested and signed by a person. Four regulars, no ghostwriters.
Cecily Hart Lead writer
Former nursery and flower-shop work, familiar with how varieties behave. she focuses on choosing and timing.
- Hand-pollinating cucumbers: key points and exceptions
- How much weight a balcony holds: a cheaper route
- Insulating a balcony for winter: when to change approach
- Kitchen waste composting: an honest three-month record
- Mixing your own potting soil: a cheaper route
- Maintaining tools: it isn't actually complicated
- Watering can capacity: a cheaper route
- Saucers and feet: a cheaper route
Sonia Marchetti Contributing editor
Twelve years growing on balconies, with more failures than successes. she writes only what has been tested at home.
- Cutting spring onions again and again: breaking the problem apart
- What strawberries need in a pot: standard, rhythm, floor
- When and how much to water: breaking the problem apart
- Using seed trays: it isn't actually complicated
- Keeping plants alive while away: when to change approach
- Storing kit tidily: out of the misconceptions
- When to mist: key points and exceptions
- An apron with pockets: what you only learn by doing
Emory Blake Staff writer
Landscape design background in small spaces. he flags light and weight limits inside propping up heavy heads.
- Staking tomatoes properly: for a first attempt
- Getting coriander to germinate: why it keeps failing
- The rhythm of feeding: out of the misconceptions
- Rotation and resting soil: breaking the problem apart
- What grows on a north-facing balcony: when to change approach
- Repotting mat: it isn't actually complicated
- Using a pruning saw: breaking the problem apart
- Budgeting for tools: an honest three-month record
Eloise Fontaine Regular contributor
Eight years writing gardening features, against treating plants as decor. she keeps them alive first, then beautiful.
- Peppers in containers: it isn't actually complicated
- How deep to sow radishes: breaking the problem apart
- Physical pest control: when to change approach
- Judging when to harvest: out of the misconceptions
- Choosing containers for food crops: the few lines you need
- Plant labels that survive: the few lines you need
- Ties and supports: when to change approach
- The beginner's minimum kit: for a first attempt