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Garlic and winter onions: they're back

We received a nice batch of garlic bulbs and red shallots, specifically for winter cultivation. Now is the time to plant them 🙂

Mid-May: hardening off and yellowing seedlings

Last year the summer vegetables were already outside by now. This year, not yet. About slow growth, yellowing seedlings and crowded windowsills.

Sowing beans and hardening off summer vegetables

About crowded windowsills, Ice Saints, hardening off step by step and why this is a good time to sow beans.

Busy with the summer vegetables

Repotting tomatoes, raising larger summer vegetables, and increasingly full windowsills. Plus: how is everything doing outside?

Late April, heading into May

About pre-sprouting and pre-sowing courgettes and cucumbers, starting now, and why May is my favourite gardening month.

10 easy seeds for beginners

Which vegetables are genuinely easy for your first garden, grow well, rarely fail and give a quick harvest? Plus: there is still just time to sow tomatoes.

Easter, spring and strawberries

These everbearing strawberries are easy to care for and give you large, tasty fruit all summer. They are available temporarily, while stocks last.

Sow now, or wait until 1 March?

How to sow in a Makkelijke Moestuin square, which varieties to sow indoors first, and how to start chitting early potatoes.

How does our sowing system work?

Sow in 30 x 30 cm squares rather than rows, with each plant in the right place and at the right spacing.

How much space do you really need?

Start a Makkelijke Moestuin with just 1 m². For a generous harvest with little work, 5 to 10 m² is enough.

The best spot for your raised beds

Find a sunny, sheltered spot for your Makkelijke Moestuin raised beds, close to home and easy to see.

2025 in the MM: a personal account

How the Makkelijke Moestuin water reservoir nearly drove me mad, why extremely difficult challenges can still be worth it, and where we are now.