The Vegetable Patch

Chayote is an exotic vine that produces large pear-shaped fruits that are very nutritious.

Mashua is a type of root crop nasturtium that was selected by the ancient Incas for its resilience and nutritional value. Key mashua facts Botanical name – Tropaeolum tuberosum Common names – mashua, tuber nasturtium Family – Tropaeolaceae Type – tuber vegetable Height – 6 to 10 feet (2 to 3 m) Planting distance – […]

Ha! Basella comes as an amazing diversification after the more classic spinach that most of us are familiar with.

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

Green, red or gold oakleaf lettuce is an easy lettuce to grow, that requires very little space, and is open to everyone, even if you only have a balcony. On your marks, get set, SOW!

Rocambole garlic is named after a fictitious character with an extravagantly nutty behavior. Rightly so! This garlic grows its cloves at the tip of its stems!

Perennial leek is a species that grows in the wild but can be cultivated. Leek sprouts anew from its bulbs year after year. Perennial leek, a summary Botanical name – Allium polyanthum Common names – Wild leek, perennial leek, many-flowered garlic Family – Alliaceae Type – Perennial vegetable Height – 1 foot (30cm) Exposure – […]

Be it for herbs, greens or tomato, a square-foot vegetable patch works best when a few simple rules are followed.

Experiment with companion planting which has by now proven its effectiveness in organic vegetable gardening. It’s easy, all pros and no cons: no treating and less work!

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. Companion planting is the art of pairing them well!

Permaculture is the art of following biological insights gleaned from considering nature as a teacher. Key is the observation of natural exchanges occurring in ecosystems. It usually involves growing plants together on small, densely-populated surfaces. Fundamentally, it ventures much further than pure biology and encompasses all questions searching to understand the relationship between mankind and […]

Rooted in both ancestral knowledge and innovation, the answer to the question “What is permaculture?” is straightforward. It is the practice of observing nature to learn from what it can teach us, aiming for food self-reliance and abundance.

Who hasn’t yet suffered the sting of wild nettle? Far from being a weed, stinging nettle is an excellent ally for organic gardeners, especially for growing tomato!

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

If you want to stop bloating your vegetables with polluting chemical fertilizers, it is time for you to familiarize yourself with natural fertilizer! No need to keep poisoning water reserves and setting local environments off balance anymore.

You’ll simply adore biting into the organic vegetables you’ve grown yourself – all the more because it won’t have cost you any heavy garden work at all! Preparing an organic square-foot vegetable patch is your key to this dream situation.

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

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 […]

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 this potato shares when cooked.

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

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

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

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,

Shallot is both easy to grow and delicious in cooking.

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

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 the tips to grow it.

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

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.

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

Colocynth is a typical “ornamental vegetable”.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 […]

Truth be said, tomato plants reign as kings in every vegetable patch, be it in the ground or on a balcony or terrace. Never does one get bored with that tasty, juicy flesh. Notwithstanding this aura, sometimes they play hard-to-get and at times even require full-time care.

Most types of tomato plants are vegetables that never stop growing. The botanical term to describe this type of blooming and fruit-bearing is the word indeterminate.

Really boosted to grow tomato, but you’ve only got a tiny balcony or terrace and think it’s impossible? Think again!

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

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.

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.