The Vegetable Patch

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!

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

Sea kale, or Crambe maritima, comes as quite a surprise: both in the garden and in the vegetable patch, it’ll trigger questions by curious onlookers! Sea kale, a summary Botanical name – Crambe maritima Common name – Sea kale Family – Cruciferae, Brassicaceae Type – perennial Bearing – clump Height – 12 to to 28 inches (30 to 70 cm) Planting density […]

Covered sowing is for all the seedlings prepared before April. Indeed, it would be too early to sow outdoors and your plants would risk freezing… so sowing under cover is the key!

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

Pumpkin is a typical fall vegetable, which especially became famous when Halloween made it into a symbol.

Butternut gourd, also called simply butternut, is one of the most popular squash varieties.

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

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

Broadcast sowing mostly relates to outdoor lawns. It also is the way to start practically all covered sowing. Outdoor plants can occasionally be sown in growing beds in this manner

Here is the calendar for sowing and preparing seedlings in the vegetable patch, so that you’ll get everything done at the right time in winter, spring, summer and fall.

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

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 […]

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.

Melon is a tasty and deliciously flavorful fruit.

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

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

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

Tomato is a vegetable-fruit that is among the most consumed vegetable available, and it’s also the most grown in our vegetables gardens.

Dandelion is a plant that grows in the wild in most fields, pastures, and gardens of course.

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

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

Dandelion is by far the most famous weed flower in our temperate climates. It can be appreciated all season long from March to November, but, it must be said,

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

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.

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.

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!

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

Colocynth is a typical “ornamental vegetable”.

Red beet are excellent vegetables with high mineral and vitamin contents that are easy to grow.

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

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

Corn salad is an easy type of salad green that is easy to grow, requires little space and is open to all, even if all you’ve got is a balcony or terrace.

More and more amateur gardeners indulge into this trendy new option: raised garden beds. Smart, convenient and cost-effective, elevated garden beds boast many advantages and

White onion, red onion and yellow onion are ancient bulb plants that are easy to grow.

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.

Eggplant is a delicious vegetable / fruit, a must-have in any vegetable patch.

Broad beans are a type of bean and part of the legume family. They’re easy and quick to

Biting into the juicy fragrant flesh of a home-grown tomato is within your reach if you have a little space in your vegetable patch.

Fresh onions in spring, preserves in winter: plant onions in your vegetable patch to provide for year-round availability in the kitchen!

Just like humans, vegetables also have friends and foes. Some families stimulate or protect each other. Other families tire each other out and make each other vulnerable.

Cherry tomato is easy to grow and the harvest is often abundant.

Brussels sprouts are vegetables that are mineral-rich and great for intestinal transit when cooked.

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

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

Growing tomatoes without stakes allows for an abundant harvest: one plant will give you a production equivalent to three staked tomatoes.

Broccoli stands out with its distinct green flower head, and is a delicious vegetable that is easy to grow.

At the start of every meal or as a finishing touch, a few crisp, fresh greens always bring a touch of delight to your meal menus.

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

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

The epitome of summer fruits, watermelon is easy to grow when it can receive all the summer sun it needs. From sowing to harvest, here are all the best practices to grow it.