A high tunnel can add weeks to the growing year at both ends
Penn State Extension says a high tunnel can start the crop up to eight weeks before the field season and carry it six weeks past the first frost.
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Germany's allotments began as play space for poor children
Germany has about a million Kleingarten allotments, 70,000 of them in Berlin. They started as fresh air for factory children. Now builders want the land.
Denmark gave the world co-housing in the 1970s
Co-housing began in Denmark in the mid-1970s. At Lilac Grove in Leeds, 20 private homes share a garden and a common house where residents eat twice a week.
Clay and sandy soil fail a garden in opposite ways
Clay holds water but packs hard, and sand drains fast but feeds little. Sarah Raven suggests persicaria for clay, and nepeta and thyme for sand.
Finland has 3.3 million saunas for 5.6 million people
The sauna is thought to date back 10,000 years, to a heated pit. It became a place to cook, tend the sick and give birth.
Why packaging is hard to open, and how to get in
Clamshells, blister packs and shrinking bottle caps resist you by design: they deter theft, prove no tampering and cut shipping weight.