Special reports

Many plants appreciate limestone soils, so you’ll find a good number of chalk-loving plants. Furthermore, since they retain water less well than other types of soil, limestone soils

Bees are endangered, in part because of the massive use of pesticides. One thing you can do to protect them is to

We’ve all seen those fabulous dewdrops, twinkling in the pale early morning sunlight. Did you know plants were behind the most beautiful ones?

Potted plants, flower beds, vegetable gardens, lawns… Not sure what irrigation system suits your outdoors best?

Choose plants based on the climate in your area for easy gardening. It will naturally help reduce treatments and watering!

Flax mulch is a by-product of cultivating flax, and it turns out to be an excellent mulch for all plants. It is the perfect soil cover for flower beds, around trees, in garden boxes and in the vegetable patch.

Shredding plant waste is possible THE ultimate way to compress all that volume. Way less endless trips to the dump! You might even cut that back to zero – chipped waste proves quite handy in the garden, whether fresh or composted! Here are our non-biased tips on choosing the right garden shredder.

Raising chickens certainly provides you with fresh eggs, but that’s not all! Did you know that chicken manure also greatly benefits your garden?

In fall, when trees and shrubs lose their foliage, a thick blanket of useful dead leaves forms in the garden. It is the season to unclog gutters and pick up leaves, and use them for gardens and vegetable plots

Landscaping a flower bed always starts with a basic question: “What type of soil is in my garden?” It’s important to know which plants will grow best.

There is a mind-numbing amount of mulches on the market, and it’s never simple to find out which one is best for where you live and the plants you want to mulch.

Infusing lavender oil is quite simple and doesn’t require any heavy equipment. All that’s needed is a carrier oil and the flowers from any type of lavender.

Now that governments are starting to ban insecticides that are the most dangerous to our honey-making friends, a reminder of the situation and the best practices to implement on how to save bees.

Not only is it very ornamental, mineral mulch is 100% natural. This trendy product is also an amazing answer to the problems of

Every gardener, at some point, feels overwhelmed by the many plant varieties he or she has to choose from. Where do they come from? Why are some protected by patents? Are they natural?

N, P, K… does this fertilizer alphabet mean anything to you? These three elements – present in blood and bone meal – are crucial for proper plant growth.

Gardening by the moon, sure! But how? And why? Gardeners have always observed with fascination the impact of the moon on plants they were growing.

Elegant, insulating, pollution-cleansing plant walls have inched across our vertical surfaces, both indoors and outdoors. Care to set one up yourself? You’ve got a range of options.

Always a hassle around the picnic basket, sometimes even a painful sting, the wasp doesn’t seem to manage positive vibes, does it? But did you know its larva devours incredible amounts of insect pests that would otherwise damage our plants?

Preparing cuttings is a plant propagation technique. A key benefit is that you reproduce the same exact plant as the one you love!

In addition to being an excellent way to learn, WWOOFing is an incredible opportunity to discover new lands and different cultures.

Fermented tea, maceration, infusion, decoction… garden tansy sure shares many benefits! Pest repellent and fungicide, it’s also an interesting flower that fosters biodiversity.

No need to trek all over the forest to find mushrooms. They also grow in gardens!

Among all types of manure, horse manure certainly has the most balanced mix of nutrients. It’s perfect for spreading in both the vegetable patch and the garden, in flower beds and along borders.

The woodlouse is not a garden helper in the “classic” sense: it doesn’t hunt pests, nor does it help in pollination.

Most of the plants that surround us tend to show guttation drops – which we often mistaken for dewdrops! Get to know which of your favorite plants might show signs of guttation, and what it means for their health. → Shown here: on Alchemilla mollis Here is a partial list of plants that have been […]

Though mice and voles are not friends in the garden, every shrew is greatly welcomed! Indeed, this small mammal spends its nights (and days!) munching on all kinds of harmful insects that come its way.

Ash can be extremely useful in your garden and for your plants since it becomes an exceptional fertilizer.

Wooden, metal, or concrete edges give way to plants. These low, compact edging plants line up to form boundaries through your landscaping efforts. For any type of exposure, this selection of edge plants will excel as a garden border!

Living the urban life in an apartment but would nonetheless love to make your own compost?

Making your own compost is a practice that helps the environment through recycling waste.

Knowing your soil type, delicately working the ground, associating plants and protecting them without using fertilizer or pesticides, all these tips will lead to healthy organic soil.

A standout tool in permaculture, the broadfork is an eco-friendly tool, also known as a grelinette, bio-fork, aerator fork, or aerator. It allows for deep soil loosening without disrupting soil balance… and without straining your back! This tool, equipped with two handles and 3 to 9 tines, was invented in 1963 by Mr. Grelin, a […]

Wisdom and ancient charm abound in the cloister garden of old. It somehow recaptures a bit of the lost garden of Eden.

Attract chaffinch, great tit, blue tit, robin, greenfinch, goldfinch, wren, spotted woodpecker,

The best of gardens share an irresistible invitation to passersby, beckoning them to sit for a spell, perhaps daydream for an instant. A simple piece of furniture, be it bench, chair, statue, a smooth slab of rock placed at the right spot by human hands, all beget meaning.

Clay pebbles, or leca, are brown balls of clay that are of great use to plants. It has the advantage of reliably managing water for plants, and it lasts a long time.

This is a product that goes by many different names: Polyter, Water Crystals, Orbeez, Watergel, Hydrogel, Hydrosource, Water drops, root watering crystals, super-absorbent polymers, PAM, water retention granules, hydrating crystals, water beads, water pebbles, hydrobeads, crystal soil, water jelly, jelly balls, soil moist, super slusher… The list seems endless and shows how much hope is […]

Even though a tool doesn’t define mastery for the gardener who owns it, nonetheless… gardening is easier when the right tool is at hand!

The spading fork, also called digging fork, is an essential tool for every gardener. You can use it to make many jobs much easier. It’s a good alternative to the standard spade, often more destructive than a spading fork is.

Chickens in the garden! If you’ve got a little space in the garden, setting up a chicken coop makes it possible to have fresh eggs

Tiny apartments or one-room studios can also be home to rich plant life. Even if you don’t have a single flat countertop or windowsill to place your nice pots and containers! An amazing indoor plant wall

Lavender oil is a famous liniment. It’s used in perfume and to heal small ailments. There are two ways to make oil from lavender:

When plants live as neighbors, they’re just like us: often, they really help each other out, but sometimes they just can’t stand each other!

In the garden, when you need to plant, sow, propagate, fertilize at the cheapest possible price, think “recycle”!

To convert your green waste into green gold like mulch and compost, invest in both a shredder and a composter.

Fall is usually the season when the purchasing of a chipper shredder comes to mind, with all the pruned shrubs and trees leading to mountains of branches. Since it is now often illegal to simply burn the branches in a huge bonfire as was done before, and we usually lack space to let it break […]

Guttation is how plants expel excess water or nutrients through tiny openings on leaves and stems. and water content.

Breakthrough research is analyzing the effect of guttation on the spread of plant diseases. In some cases, guttation is bad for plants.

Peat is fossil organic matter, formed from plant debris. It is the major constituent of soils saturated in water like peat bogs.

Ramial Chipped Wood, or RCW for short, is a type of mulch that maximizes forestry waste. When trees are harvested for wood, their branches and twigs can become nutrient-rich mulch for gardens and vegetable beds.