The Vegetable Patch

Silverbeet or chard is a vegetable that is appreciated for its leaves and for its stems or stalks.

Chinese cabbage is favored for its long leaves, that are both delicious and low on carbohydrates.

Wild or cultured purslane is a crawling plant that has leaves that are appreciated for their slightly lemony taste.

There are several different vegetables that are hardy enough to the cold that you can still make the vegetable patch an enchanting place to be. Zoom in on kohlrabi, Brussels sprouts, winter lettuce…

Gourd, or squash, is a familiar fall vegetable.

Parsnip is a delicious heirloom vegetable from which the root is eaten.

Cabbage is a vegetable that comes in many varieties and is very easy to grow.

Whether for vegetables or certain flower species, direct sowing or sowing in situ is very easy. It takes place in spring, once the last frost has passed, and during summer for most fall vegetables.

Turnip has a long history of growing, and without doubt is among the most tasty vegetables.

Bell pepper is an excellent easy to grow summer vegetable.

Growing green peas is quite easy and is very enjoyable. It usually starts in the spring and continues during summer.

From planting to harvest, here are the practices that will help you grow beautiful potatoes.

Its rough taste sends the weak-spirited away. Nonetheless, Brussels sprouts are an excellent source of vitamin C and fibers.

Carrot is undoubtedly one of the most commonly grown vegetables, and one of the tastiest, too.

Sorrel is a delicious herb plant from which the leaves are eaten. Their acidic taste is quite distinctive.

It can be eaten as a side or main dish, and it is easy to harvest. Such assets will lead you to want to grow red beet in your vegetable patch!

Rutabaga, also called swede when the flesh is white, is an ancient heirloom vegetable that is particularly well suited to climates where winters are cold and moist.

Red beet is an excellent vegetable with high mineral and vitamin contents that is easy to grow.

Swede, also called rutabaga when its flesh is yellow, is an  ancient heirloom vegetable that is particularly well suited to climates where winters are cold and moist.

Cucumber and pickle is easy to grow as long as a few basic practices are followed.

Lettuce is an easy salad plant to grow, which needs little space and is open to all, even if all you have is a terrace or balcony.

Spinach is a vegetable that is both easy to grow and has the advantage of being planted early in the season.

Savoy cabbage and white kale are delicious vegetables that make for easy growing.

Celery is a vegetable where the entire plant is edible: root, stalks and leaves.

Fennel is a plant for which the roots are the part we eat and its nutritious and culinary value is exceptional. It is a very good summer vegetable.

Red kuri squash, also called Orange Hokkaido squash or Japanese squash, is a delicious vegetable, fleshy and tasty.

The purple Vitelotte noire, or black vitelotte, isn’t only reputed for its striking violet flesh, but also for the delicious particular taste this potato shares when cooked.

Radish is a root vegetable that is absolutely delicious. It is famous for both its taste and the ease with which it grow.

Germinating potato tubers before planting them helps increase growth of your young plants. It brings the harvest a few days or weeks earlier, and increases harvest size and quality.

Much tastier than any tomato purchased in a store, tomatoes sown from seed are also more flavorful than those purchased in nursery pots.

Garlic is a perennial vegetable plant which is a must-have in the vegetable patch. It craves sun.

Mushroom lovers, great news! For one, they are a good source of nutrients for our bodies. For the other, you can grow your own in the comfort of your homes – on recycled coffee grounds! Growing mushrooms is easy with a little guidance. Although you cannot use a normal garden soil, you can use spent […]

Zucchini is an easy plant to grow that will delight your taste buds from summer to fall.

Asparagus is a delicate-tasting vegetable and growing it means paying attention to a few things.

Cauliflower is a vegetable that has low calorie levels and high fiber, calcium and magnesium content.

Even if this might come as a surprise to many, the growing of artichoke is relatively simple to pull through.

Red kuri, like all squash and gourd plants, spreads over vast areas as it grows. Grow red kuri vertically to maximize growing space in your entire vegetable patch!

For the school holidays, nothing beats introducing your children to the world of gardening. This vegetable patch calendar will make them more sensitive to the environment and to the food they eat.

Spring is a busy season for planting and sowing, busy as in “buzzy” since bees and insects have joined the show in the vegetable patch! You need to clean, sow, repot, transplant, and more if you want to harvest

Sowing seeds in a nursery has many advantages, the greatest of which is that it enables certain plants to start growing in ideal conditions.

Chemical treatments are increasingly being banned across the planet thanks to the increased awareness of people. Growing “organic” vegetables has become mainstream, much more today than the fad it once was.

In the age before industrial agriculture, there were over 1000 varieties of vegetables in people’s gardens… an incredible heirloom which has now been forgotten!

This isn’t your typical veggie patch, but keen gardeners will definitely give perennial vegetables a try. From the many species and kinds of vegetables, several can live, two, three years and more while still yielding a crop for months on end.

Never a day’s rest for the gardener! Summer harvests are in, and now in Autumn plots are prepared for the planting and sowing of winter crops.

Beans, peas, lentils, soybeans… the legume family all share flowers shaped like butterfly wings, roots that lock nitrogen into the soil, and seeds that have high levels of protein. To sum it up, it just what any garden needs!

Physalis or Peruvian groundcherry is a plant that offers cute, perfectly edible fruits.

Jerusalem artichoke is an ancient vegetable that is reappearing on our market stalls, with good reason: it is delicious!

Even if you don’t have a large garden in your house or can’t spare a portion of the garden for a vegetable plot, you still have options to grow a few special bell pepper varieties in pots on a balcony, deck or terrace.

Been wanting to start a veggie patch but not sure how get started? Find out how to start your first vegetable patch in 6 key steps!

Ready for your first steps in permaculture? Whether your garden be big or small, laid out already or still in the planning stages,

A rarer form of Physalis, tomatillo is a late summer vegetable that is easy to grow since the plant resists disease well. Tomatillo fruits are usually cooked and help soften the spice in many Central American recipes. Top tomatillo facts