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The Vegetable Patch

Advice on how to grow vegetables from seed to harvest, care for them, protect them from diseases, and boost harvests. Natural treatments only!

Zucchini, a delicious vegetable that is easy to grow

 zucchini

Banana Legs tomato, long and yellow, like a banana!

 Basket with banana legs tomatoes in it

The beefsteak tomato, a massive tomato ideal for baking

 Beefsteak tomato

What is permaculture?

 What is permaculture? Explanation

Primora tomato, a large, dark, striped variety that looks stunning in salad

 Large, green slightly striped primora tomato

Roma tomato, disease-resistant and nearly seedless

 Four roma tomatoes on the vine

25 Vegetables that resist drought and dry spells

 Drought-resistant vegetables

Grow bell pepper in pots for great results

 Potted bell pepper

How to Grow and Care Tomatoes in Pots ?

 Tomato growing and ripening in a pot

Permaculture, nature is the ultimate teacher

 Permaculture basic principles - nature teacher

Around the summer vegetable bed

 Summer vegetables and tomato care

Spring sowing and planting in the vegetable patch

 Rows of lettuce and radish sowed and planted in a spring vegetables patch.

Eggplant, abundant till the end of summer

 Bountiful eggplant with a dozen eggplants.

Carrot, from seed to harvest

 Carrot growing in the soil, slightly uncovered at the crown.

Artichoke, how to grow it

 Artichoke head raised up against a hazy background.

Growing melon, what you need to know

 Melon growing in a vegetable patch

Lettuce, tips on growing it

 Lettuce

Spring sowing and planting

 Row of onion and strawberry plants

Grow red kuri vertically to maximize space

 Red kuri on a fence with leaves and fruit

Celery, a delicious vegetable

 celery

Companion planting in the vegetable patch

 Raised beds with companion planting

How to grow tomato, the perfect guide

 Tomatoes plant

Red beet, blood-red juice but no-sweat growing!

 Red beet

Fennel, from seed to harvest

 Fennel growing in a vegetable patch.

Chard, a fiber-rich leaf vegetable

 Chard

Garlic, how to grow huge and healthy heads

 Garlic

How to Grow and Care for Butternut Squash

 Butternut squash

Black radish, the winter radish

 Black radish

Mizuna cabbage, japanese greens

 Three greens: lettuce, mizuna cabbage and coriander

Asparagus, how to grow it

 Two asparagus shoots coming up from a ridge in a field.

Lentil, from seed to harvest

 Lentil plants growing in a vegetable patch, with pods ready for the harvest

Broad beans, easy and quick to grow

 Opening a fresh broad bean

Brussels sprouts, all there is to know about growing them

 A small pyramid of fresh brussels sprouts doused in water.

Brussels sprouts, the Origin story

 Brussels sprouts peeled and laid out on a cutting board, ready for a winter meal.

The Children’s vegetable patch – with a simple planting calendar, too!

 Toddler watering tulips.

Turnip-rooted chervil, how to grow it

 Turnip-rooted chervil tubers ready to sprout

Jerusalem artichoke, an effortless vegetable to grow

 Jerusalem artichoke harvest with squash and other vegetables

Corn salad, how to grow corn salad

 A few leaves of corn salad in the growing bed.

Sea kale, Crambe maritima – a seaside cabbage both cute and tasty

 Clump of sea kale with gravel mulch.

Cauliflower, everything there is to know about growing it

 Cauliflower

Honey Moon tomato, round and firm, and tasty, too!

 Three honey moon tomato

Cherry tomato, savoring the summer!

 Cherry tomatoes growing on the plant.

Growing mushrooms on coffee grounds

 How to grow mushrooms on coffee grounds

Pruning eggplant, when, why and how

 When and how to prune eggplant

Which vegetables to grow in winter?

 Winter vegetables

Chufa, a root vegetable that produces groundnuts

 Chufa roots with groundnuts forming

Black salsify, delicious heirloom root

 Black salsify

Scores of squash! Discover the most surprising varieties

 main squash varieties

Pumpkins : How to Plant, Grow, and Harvest

 Pumpkins

Spaghetti squash, surprising flesh

 Spaghetti squash

Tomato, a fruit or a veggie? The final answer.

 Tomato is a fruit that many think is a vegetable